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Ray Stannard Baker. The Countryman's Year
The Countryman's Year
Table of Contents
FOREWORD
APRIL
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER I. APRIL IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
MAY
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER II. MAY IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
JUNE
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER III. JUNE IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
JULY
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER IV. JULY IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
AUGUST
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER V. AUGUST IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
SEPTEMBER
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER VI. SEPTEMBER IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
OCTOBER
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER VII. OCTOBER IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
NOVEMBER
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER VIII. NOVEMBER IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
DECEMBER
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER IX. DECEMBER IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
JANUARY
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER X. JANUARY IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
FEBRUARY
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER XI. FEBRUARY IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
MARCH
IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
CHAPTER XII. MARCH IN THE COUNTRYMAN’S YEAR
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Ray Stannard Baker
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The old mill stands at the edge of a little valley, the stream from which has been led around the hillside in a canal so ancient that the banks are grown up to sturdy trees. I like to watch the clear water, coming from the haunts of trout and of deer, plunging into the penstock above the water wheel. The old gray millstones, shipped from France a century or more ago and brought overland by ox teams all of a hundred and fifty miles from New London, are still in good condition. The grandfather of the present owner built the canal and the sluice and the wooden mill, which is now old and gray, with green wet moss covering all the north side where the spray wets it. When the valley was still new and wild, and George III was King of England, the virgin soil grew wheat, which the miller ground into coarse gray flour. Today not a bushel of wheat is grown in all our valley, but the farmers still bring in their rye for the miller to grind, and they themselves afterwards sift it. And I bring my corn. Most of the business is now corn meal, ground for poultry feed.
We emptied the bags into the iron crushing mill, cogged with great blunt teeth, which tore the corn, cobs and all, into bits. It was then conveyed through the chute to the stones beyond, and the miller and I stood with hands in the down-falling meal to make sure that the appropriate fineness had been reached.
