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It is a smooth stone, placed on an inclined plane, upon which the grain is spread, which is made into meal by rubbing another stone up and down upon it. "Our first water mills were of that description denominated tub-mills.
On a few of the streams log-dams were built, and tub-mills started. In Harrodsburg a toll mill was built in 1779. The owner used to start it grinding, and then go about his other business; once on returning he found a large wild turkey-gobbler so busily breakfasting out of the hopper that he was able to creep quietly up and catch him with his hands.
When a farmer goes to one of our little tub-mills, mentioned in previous chapters, he leaves a portion of the meal as toll. Toddick, then, is a small measure. A turn of meal is so called because "each man's corn is ground in turn he waits his turn." When one dines in a cabin back in the hills he will taste some strange dishes that go by still stranger names.
Medlin itself comprised two little stores built of rough planks and bearing no signs, a corn mill, and four dwellings. A mile and a half away was the log schoolhouse, which, once or twice a month, served also as church. Scattered about the settlement were seven tiny tub-mills for grinding corn, some of them mere open sheds with a capacity of about a bushel a day.
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