. A'Chu and other stories. (Q U. <B U., JN. *. PRIMITIVE GRIST MILL Country Homes in the Background told that the Chinese in these parts do not followthe practice of polishing their rice, as they considerunbleached rice more nutritious. On the other side of the street was a flour millvery much like the mills used in the days of Jesus, One Hour in a Native Village 147 and of which he spoke when he said, Two womenshall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,and the other left. The grinding apparatus con-sists of two flat stones, one resting upon the stones are turned by h
. A'Chu and other stories. (Q U. <B U., JN. *. PRIMITIVE GRIST MILL Country Homes in the Background told that the Chinese in these parts do not followthe practice of polishing their rice, as they considerunbleached rice more nutritious. On the other side of the street was a flour millvery much like the mills used in the days of Jesus, One Hour in a Native Village 147 and of which he spoke when he said, Two womenshall be grinding at the mill; the one shall be taken,and the other left. The grinding apparatus con-sists of two flat stones, one resting upon the stones are turned by hand round and grains fall between the stones through a squarehole cut in the center of the upper one, and areground between them. The wheat is passed through. GRINDING FLOUR WITH WATER BUFFALO the mill four or five times before it becomes fineenough for flour. It is then sifted through largesieves shaken by a treadle. Bread baked from yes-terdays grist at this mill was served us for supper,and we thought it very delicious, but the missionariesare glad to get an occasional change to white wheat is threshed in the fashion of Bible times,by beating with the flail on the threshing floors ofsmoothed earth. Some of the grains are soiled in 148 AChu and Other Stories threshing, and for this reason the wheat must bewashed before grinding. We saw a large quantity ofbright golden wheat lying spread out on broad bam-boo-splint trays to dry in the sun after having beenthoroughly washed. There are larger mills in thevillage, where the stones are turned by donkeys or waterbuffalo hitched to long sweeps. BUNS WHILE YOU WAIT Outside the mill premises a man was baking softbuns in a little iron oven heated over a kettle of boil-ing water. He sold t
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