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[[Image:Mill.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Hammel-Henker Key City Roller Mill. Photo courtesy: William K. Hammel]][[Image:Exhibit.jpg|right|thumb|150px|"Crowing for Rooster Flour." Photo courtesy: William Hammel.]] | [[Image:Mill.jpg|left|thumb|250px|Hammel-Henker Key City Roller Mill. Photo courtesy: William K. Hammel]][[Image:Exhibit.jpg|right|thumb|150px|"Crowing for Rooster Flour." Photo courtesy: William Hammel.]] | ||
ROOSTER FLOUR MILLS. | ROOSTER FLOUR MILLS. Beginning operations on February 8, 1879, at Eighteenth and Pine [[STREETS]], Rooster Flour Mills featured many automatic features and only three employees were needed. The mill has a capacity of 150 barrels daily with an annual production of about 5,400 tons of flour annually. This included wheat flour, rye flour, graham flour, buckwheat flour and pancake flour. The company also ground any grain the farmers brought in included bolted meal, coarse meal, chop feed, bran, and shorts. Besides its grinding business, the company sold oil meal, wheat, corn, oats, hay and straw. | ||
Beginning operations on February 8, 1879, at Eighteenth and Pine [[STREETS]], Rooster Flour Mills featured many automatic features and only three employees were needed. The mill has a capacity of 150 barrels daily with an annual production of about 5,400 tons of flour annually. This included wheat flour, rye flour, graham flour, buckwheat flour and pancake flour. The company also ground any grain the farmers brought in included bolted meal, coarse meal, chop feed, bran, and shorts. Besides its grinding business, the company sold oil meal, wheat, corn, oats, hay and straw. | |||
The flour produced by the company was sold in Dubuque, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. | The flour produced by the company was sold in Dubuque, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa. | ||
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The 1955 ''Dubuque City Directory'' listed 145 W. 1st. The company advertised that it sold poultry, hog, beef, rabbit, and dog food. | |||
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Revision as of 04:08, 12 December 2011
ROOSTER FLOUR MILLS. Beginning operations on February 8, 1879, at Eighteenth and Pine STREETS, Rooster Flour Mills featured many automatic features and only three employees were needed. The mill has a capacity of 150 barrels daily with an annual production of about 5,400 tons of flour annually. This included wheat flour, rye flour, graham flour, buckwheat flour and pancake flour. The company also ground any grain the farmers brought in included bolted meal, coarse meal, chop feed, bran, and shorts. Besides its grinding business, the company sold oil meal, wheat, corn, oats, hay and straw.
The flour produced by the company was sold in Dubuque, Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa.
The last flour was processed at the mill in 1933 when production was entirely converted to feed processing. The mill burned down on May 12, 1943. The company continued in operations selling equipment needed by farmers.
The 1955 Dubuque City Directory listed 145 W. 1st. The company advertised that it sold poultry, hog, beef, rabbit, and dog food.