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298 on grinding eat meal. June 2 
nation like the Rufsians, who raised a, rebellion against 
the great Peter for making them fhave their beards, to 
appear like their neighbours. 
If what I have suggested have any weight, I hope it 
‘will induce the gentlemen of the northern counties, to 
cttake the matter into consideration; and, in that case, it 
will be a considerable favour done them, if any of your 
correspondents, versant in the practice of the north and 
south, would inform them what is the difference of the 
machinery of the mills in the north and south counties, 
and how the machinery of the mills in the north could 
be altered, so as to grind the meal round, as is done in the 
south of Scotland. : 
Any hint upon this head, with some plain pratical di- 
_xections to the millars, to instruct them in the alteration 
proposed, would be a serv:ce to the community at large. . 
: Your constant reader, 
Aberdeen. Rusticus *, 
* Nothing is more easy, and every miller in Aberdeenfhire knows, 
that, by merely setting the stones a litte wider than usual, the meal will 
be grinded rounder. But till the culture of small corn-be abandoned, the 
practice of making round meal cannot become universal; as, from that 
Kind of grain, a smallkind of meal only can beobtained. While that kind 
of meal, called farm meal, is payable by their leases, the tenants will ne- 
ver abandon the practice of small grinding. Were nothing but avbite meal 
payable by the tenants, they would not be under the same temptation as 
at present. 
_ IN. B. The terms farm meal, and white meal, will not be understood 
by many of my readers; but they are perfectly familiar in Aberdeenthire. 
The first is an inferior kind of meal, made from a very smai/ kind of oats, 
‘with a long beard, that is only known, I think, in the northern parts of 
Scotland. The last is meal made from the kind of oats common in eves 
ry Part of the country. Edit. 
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