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The old rundale plan of dividing up the land among the children was put a stop to, and every tenant was encouraged not to make his holding smaller, but to add to and enlarge it. A corn-mill, saw-mill, and flax-mill were established. In 1838 there was not a baker within ten miles. In 1852 the local baker was driving a good business in good bread.
"I must be going now." "Wait," she said, and there was something insistent and yet pleading in her voice. "I've got something to say. You must hear it.... Why should you go? There is my farm it needs to be worked right. It has got good chances. It has water-power and wood and the best flax in the province they want to start a flax-mill on it I've had letters from big men in Montreal.
"I must be going now." "Wait," she said, and there was something insistent and yet pleading in her voice. "I've got something to say. You must hear it. . . . Why should you go? There is my farm it needs to be worked right. It has got good chances. It has water-power and wood and the best flax in the province they want to start a flax-mill on it I've had letters from big men in Montreal.
"We had now crossed that part of the sloping upland which led us out upon a bridle road, that passed close by M'Loughlin's house and manufactory, and which, slanted across a ford in the river, a little above their flax-mill. Having got out upon this little road, Raymond, who, as well as his companion, had for some time past proceeded in silence, stopped suddenly, and said 'Where is heaven, Mary?
Let us now observe what a varied number of mechanical and agricultural appliances are required to furnish us with this cheap literature. There is agriculture, in the growth of the fibre that produces the material of which the printing paper is made; then the flax-mill is brought into play to produce the yarn to be woven; then weaving to produce the cloth; after this, dyeing.
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