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Folding and Stitching Room.

The machines to the left of illustration are folding machines for folding the sheets for the Recipe and “Road to Wellville” booklets. Each folder has a capacity of folding 2,500 sheets of paper per hour, containing 15,000 booklets of 32 pages each. These booklets then pass to the wire stitching machines shown on the right. These machines stitch the leaves together. There are five stitchers, each one will stitch 6,000 per hour.

In the rear of this room is a complete typesetting plant, where all printing forms are set up. Adjoining is a complete stereotyping room, where all stereotypes are made.

tities of white wheat-bread, from which the diastatic element (which digests the starch) has been eliminated in milling, it is small wonder that we should find such an increase in the particular trouble mentioned.

The starchy portion of the food is not digested by the juices of the stomach proper,

Cutting and Creasing Room.

The presses in this room cut to shape from the large cardboard sheets the Grape-Nuts and Postum paper packages, ready to go to the automatic machine that sets them up, ready to be filled.

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