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That is , not one of the great mills that turn millions of bushels of wheat into flour ; but it did grind buckwheat for the farmers and made coarse flour and feed for their stock , cracked corn for poultry and so on . The four little Blossoms saw much to interest them , but the great round stones that ground the grains and the arrangements for sifting the dust and chaff from the grain interested them the most . `` It must be fun to be a miller ! '' said Bobby , when they were ready to go and the noon whistle blew and the big stones stopped turning as the power was shut off . `` Maybe when I grow up I 'll run a mill . '' Rattling home in the big wagon with two sacks of `` middlings '' in the back with them , Twaddles and Dot decided that they , too , would have a mill some day . Right after dinner the four children started to hunt for the lost raft .