The book Pioneer Life Among the Loyalists in Upper Canada was written by author Walter Stevens Herrington Here you can read free online of Pioneer Life Among the Loyalists in Upper Canada book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Pioneer Life Among the Loyalists in Upper Canada a good or bad book?
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When the first crop of grain was obtained, it was harvested with the crude implements of the day and conveyed to the threshing floor. As a rule this consisted of a bare piece of ground, sometimes covered with boards or flat stones, but more frequently the bare earth had no covering. Here the grain was pounded out with a flail, and Nature sup- plied the f anning-mill : the mixed grain and chaff were tossed into the air during a stiff breeze, and the chaff was blown away. To convert the wheat int...o flour was a more difficult matter. The government had pro- vided a few little hand-mills, but they were not adapted to the purpose; so that the settler took a lesson from the Indian, burned a large hole in the top of an oak stump and pounded the wheat to a powder with a pestle 42 PIONEER LIFE or a cannon ball suspended from the end of a sweep. It was not many years before government mills were erected at different points, where there was a sufficient supply of water-power. The localities thus served, suffered little inconvenience, as compared with less favoured districts.
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