One of the major products processed at the Davis Feed Mill is pellet feed used by many animals. Pellets are made of a variety of ground grains and often include molasses (a wet sweetener). The ground grains are mixed together, combined with the molasses, and then forced through a machine that creates the pellet shape.

A molasses mixer mixes molasses with the grains. The material is pumped at a rate shown on the gage.		The molasses is combined with the product in a mixer. To begin with the mixture is sticky, but eventually the product is dry in the final pellet form.
This bin (at top) is for the pellet mixture.		A beater will chop the grains down finer; this wheel spins at a high speed and will force out the grain mixture through holes in pellet form.

The pellets drop down into the basement and are shot out. The warm mixture is taken up to the roof and returned to this machine to be cooled down. This pellet shaker cools off the pellets before they are bagged.