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great inconvenience and expense of sending my 

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

 expense, in case of a considerable family, living at 

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

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

 Residence in America," from Paragraphs 1031 and 

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

 had in my farm yard ; and I showed, I think very 

 clearly, that corn could be ground cheaper in this 

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

 swer well to grind for sale in this way as well as for 

 home use. Since my return to England I have seen 

 a mill, erected in consequence of what the owner had 

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

 mer, who, when he cannot work on his 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 grind, 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 bushel comes to four and sixpence, 

 which pays the man and the boy, supposing them 

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

 lor the express purpose out of the street. With the 

 same mill you grind meat for your pigs; 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 own wheat ; for strange as it 

 may seem, I used sometimes to find that I sent 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 I came to grind by .horses, 

 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 



