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If there was a steady breeze, cane was brought to the windmill, where revolving sails turned a central shaft that rotated the rollers and crushed the stalks. Juice ran down the rollers into the gutter and flowed downhill to the factory. Built between 1797 and 1805 as part of the factory, the windmill could produce more juice than the horsemill and required fewer people and no draft animals. Its now-missing turret carried the axle and sails and could be turned into the wind.
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