Talk:Gristmill

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Grist mill should not be milled with flour mill. It served an entirely different social, political, and business purpose. (anon edit by 69.254.163.236)

Agreed - the articles should not be merged. Pollinator 00:14, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Comment

Despite the above comments, corn mill, flour mill and grist mill appear to have been merged. I consider this good, as they were liable to develop as parallel articles on the same subject. If there is a significant difference, it would be better if it were explained in the course of the article. However, I am not happy about the value of the list of working grist mills (both in USA). There is a separate article Watermills in the United Kingdom, which probably includes both working mills and decayed ones, as well as some concerned with other industries. How do we ensure that there is reasonable coverage? It is particularly important to avaoid parallel articles, as this tends to generate conflicting material. There is a risk that water mill will similarly develop as a rival. Peterkingiron 17:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

To equate gristmill with watermill is entirely erroneous. Watermills were used for a large variety of tasks other than grinding grains - see the list of watermill types which points to a number of separate articles. There's a fair bit of linguistic diversity here - the British term is usually 'corn mill' and 'grist mill' isn't used although they mean much the same. I'm ok with the current arrangement. Chris55 13:18, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

There seems to be a problem with this article: when I try to make a link to "flour mill", I arrive here. But the article contains little to explain the history (more than 2000 years) and operation of these mills. Furthermore, it contains rather a long list of mills, all of which are in the USA. Naturally, one would add a "globalize" tag to the article, but is it really intended that the article should contain a list of all the world's working flour mills? On the other hand, the "water mill" article contains a wealth of material that is lacking here, but does not confine itself to flour milling. Anyway, I am adding a bit to put the historical section into perspective. . . .LinguisticDemographer 20:12, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

I suspect that some of the detail in the article Watermill ought to be shifted here, as it contains a good deal of detail that is in fact specific to flour milling. On the other hand, the list of mills in USA should be removed into a separate article, equivalent to Watermills in the United Kingdom. Similar lists are no doubt needed for other countries. Peterkingiron 17:35, 28 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Missing dates

The sections "The classical British and American mills" and "Modern mills" lack dates, and appear to be out of chronological order? -- Beland (talk) 00:25, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

Order changed as requested, but I wonder whether there are consequential changes needed. Peterkingiron (talk) 21:36, 24 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Barbegal aqueduct and mill

in that page it's indicated "4.5 tons of flour per day" where in this article it's "2.4 to 3.2 tonnes per hour". 216.86.113.233 (talk) 03:21, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

These will both be modern estimates. I suspect that the Barbegal article will be better based on the most recent academic literature on the site, whereas this one will be based on a general reference book, by Gimpel: an important work but not a recetn one. Gimpel (p.9) does indeed give the figure 2-4-3.2 tonnes per hour, but his book was originally written in 1976 and I suspect he was quoting from much earlier work. The source cited in the Babegal article is a French website, which I cannot manage to open. However, I think that there is a more recent article on the subject, which may be the basis for the lower figure of 4.5 tonnnes per day. Peterkingiron (talk) 16:08, 8 June 2008 (UTC)