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Grades of Flour Mason Maddox, the miller, wanted to make different grades of wheat flour. He took already-sifted whole wheat flour and resifted it, using different screens in the shaker. The silk screen produced super fine flour, the steel wire screen produced fine flour and the coarse grits screen sifted the rest into ship's or bread stuff. Since the flour was sifted before going through the screens, the bran had already been removed. Dawn Kehrer plans to test the different flour grades by using them in the same recipe and determining the effect on the finished product. On the Road with Mason Maddox On Saturday, March 19, Colvin Run's miller Mason Maddox traveled to Bowmansville, Pennsylvania, to lend his expertise and help bring a community's history to life. The mill complex, built c.1850 mid-way between Lancaster and Reading, has both a gristmill (powered by two waterwheels) and a sawmill (powered by a third waterwheel). On the day of Mason's visit, 100 people came to see him grind whole wheat flour while nearby, Levi Leinbach ran the water-powered sawmill and cut poplar boards. Miller Mason Maddox uses a hammer and mill bill to sharpen the "stitching lines" in the bed stone at Colvin Run Mill. The newly sharpened lines will make the grinding stones work more efficiently to produce finely ground whole wheat flour. Milling Around is "Fascinating" Job for Oakton Teen From Monday through Saturday, he's a senior at Oakton High School. But on Sundays, he steps back a century or two to become a boy miller and journeyman at Colvin Run Mill Historic Site.