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exclaim, when he gets up in the morning, " What 

 shall I set them at to-day?" If he had a mill, he 

 would make them pull off their shoes, sweep all out 

 clean, winnow up some corn, if he had it not already 

 done, and grind and dress, and have every thing in 

 order. No scolding within doors about the grist ; no 

 squeaking in the stye ; no boy sent off in the rain to 

 the mill. 



97. But there is one advantage which I have not 

 yet mentioned, and which is the greatest of all; 

 namely, that you would have the power of supplying 

 your married labourers ; your blacksmith's men 

 sometimes ; your wheelwright's men at other times ; 

 and, indeed, the greater part of the persons that you 

 employed, with good flour, instead of their going to 

 purchase their flour, after it had passed through the 

 hands of a Corn Merchant, a Miller, a Flour Mer^- 

 chant, and a Huckster, every one of whom does and 

 must have a profit out of the flour, arising from wheat 



frown upon, and sent away from, your very farm ! 

 used to let all my people have flour at the same 

 price that they would otherwise have been compelled 

 to give for worse flour. Every Farmer will under- 

 stand me when I say, that he ought to pay for nothing 

 in money, which he can pay for in any thing but 

 money. His maxim is to keep the money that he 

 takes as long as he can. Now here is a most effectual 

 way of putting that maxim in practice to a, very great 

 extent. Farmers know well that it is the Saturday 

 night which empties their .pockets ; and here is the 

 means of cutting off a good half of the Saturday 

 night. The men have better flour for the same mo- 

 ney, and still the farmer keeps at home those profits 

 which would go to the maintaining of the dealers in 

 wheat and in flour. 



98. The maker of my little mill is Mr. HILL, of 

 Oxford-street. The expense is what I have stated 

 it to be. I, with my small establishment, find the 

 thing convenient and advantageous ; what then must 

 it be to a gentleman in the country who has room 

 and horses, and a considerable family to provide for? 



