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oil; the fuel for the horse can be produced on the 

 farm. The horse, too, makes it possible to reduce ex- 

 penditures for fertilizer. No wonder that since the 

 depression there has been a decided increase in the use 

 of horses for farming and a corresponding decline in 

 the use of tractors. 



Both on economic and on nutritional grounds we 

 have revolted against the commercial cereals and or- 

 dinary white flour. A small grist-mill, to which we 

 attached a motor from a discarded dishwasher, has 

 made it possible for us to grind our own flour, and to 

 crack cereals for breakfast foods. We have even man- 

 aged to cut down the cost of the mash we feed to our 

 chickens by buying whole grains and grinding them 

 ourselves. That this simple piece of machinery should 

 be in every homestead can certainly be demonstrated 

 on the basis of what it saves on the cost of whole- 

 wheat flour, which is the only kind we use. 



We, of course, have had to buy our wheat. The 

 wheat is, therefore, our first cost. If wheat and oats 

 and corn are grown on the homestead, this would no 

 longer be the first cost. First cost would be whatever 

 we had to spend in labor and money to raise the wheat. 

 After paying for the wheat, and adding the value of 

 the labor and the cost of current and similar expenses 

 of operating our mill, our whole-wheat flour costs us 

 about 1 1 /2 cents per pound. Whole-wheat flour of 

 the same quality now sells in the grocery store for 6 l /2 

 cents per pound. The difference between the two is 



