54 MAKING BREAD. [No. 



great inconvenience and expense of sending my 

 wheat and other grain to be ground at a mill. This 

 expense, in case of * considerable family. Jivin 



only a mile from a mill, is something ; hut the incon- 

 veniency and uncertainty are great. In my ''Year's 

 Residence in America," froi: iphs 1031 and 



onwards, I give an account of a" horse-mill which I 

 had in my farm yard : and 1 showed, 1 think very 

 clearly, that corn could he ground cheaper in this 

 way than by wind or water, and that it would an- 

 swer \\ < tor sale in ell as for 

 home use. Since my return to England I have seen 

 a mill, erected in cv '.-of what tin- u\\ TUT had 

 read in my book. This mill belongs to a small far- 

 mer, who, when he cannot work on \n< land with his 

 horses, or in the season when he has little for them 

 to do, grinds wheat, sells the flour ; and he takes in 

 grists to srind, as other millers do. This mill goes 

 with three small horses; but what I would recom- 

 mend to gentlemen with considerable families, or to 

 farmers, is a mill such as I myself have at present. 



94.' With this mill, turned by a man and a stout 

 boy, I can grind six bushels of wheat in a day and 

 dress the flour. The grinding of six bushels of wheat 

 at ninepence a lui^hrl comes to four and sixpence, 

 which pays the man and the boy, supposing them 

 (which is not and seldom can be the case) to he hired 

 lor the express purpose out of the street. With the 

 same mill you srrind meat for your pis:s; and of this 

 you will get eight or ten bushels ground in a day. 

 You have no trouble about sending to the mill; you 

 are sure to have your oicn ir/teat ; for strange as it 

 may seem, I used sometimes to find that 1 >ent white 

 Essex wheat to the mill, and that it brought me flour 

 from very coarse red wheat. There is no accounting 

 for this, except by supposing that wind and water 

 power has something in it to change the very nature 

 of the grain: as. when 1 came to :irind by .hor- 

 such as the wheat went into the hopper, so the flour 

 came out into the bin. 



95. But mine now is only on the petty scale of 



