 All three were typically sold by retailers who bought cereal in barrel lots and scooped it out to sell by the pound to customers.Toasted Cerealine Flakes was later sold in packages.In 1902, the Cerealine Manufacturing Company was consolidated with Indianapolis Hominy Mills; the Hudmet Company, of Missouri and Indiana; the Pratt Cereal Mill, of Decatur, Illinois; the Hamburg Milling Company and the Shellabarger Mill and Elevator Company, also of Decatur; the M.M.