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One more mention about mills. In the North East there were many small feed mills to serve the local farmers. Just about every town at had least one. Feed would arrive in covered hoppers to be unloaded into silos for custom mixing/blending for various customers. Smaller bagged shipments would arrive by boxcar. Bagged feed, fertilizer, tractor parts, lime and even tank cars of anydrous ammonia were common deliveres. Agway, Beacon Feeds, Wayne, Purina are to name but a few. Structures were typically wood framed boxy, peaked roofed with a small "cupola" looking church steeple in the middle. This was the "head house" where the internal piping from the various bins distributed the feed or mixed it. Larger facilities often had expanded capacity with metal Butler bins which Walthers offers. Several good plans for feed mills have been published in Model Railroader over the years. My favorite is the A. R. Gilmore Beacon Feeds building in Lakeville, NY. Plans appeared in the March 81 MR. Another good article with plans is Nickels Milling and Feed Plant which appeared in the June 72 MR. Feed mills were a common sight in every small northeastern town up until the mid eighties and would be an excellent industry and source of traffic for your model Vermont Railway / Green Mountain. Sincerely, Jack Bullard.
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