...Robert S. Smith Flour for Man’s Bread: A History of Milling . By Storck John Teague Walter Dorwin . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 1952 . Pp. xiii , 382 . $7.50 . Copyright © 1953 by Duke University Press 1953 5oo The South Atlantic Quarterly The future...

... the double purpose of cruising about Chesapeake Bay for the protection of its shores, and making occa­ sional voyages to Havana to exchange cargoes of flour for military supplies and clothing for the soldiers. This story of their brief career in the Bay is pieced together from the correspondence of the State...

.... The ancient principles and vested interests of exclusion were strong enough to restrict the freedom granted in such wise that it included nothing from which a French profit might be drawn at the expense of the colonist. In par­ ticular, it did not include the importation of flour or of any other food stuff...

... take all other animal and vegetable products exported any year wheat, corn, barley, oats, rye, flour, meal, oat-meal, fruits, vegetables, liquors, tobacco, wine, cattle, hogs, horses, sheep, beef, pork, mutton, butter, cheese, canned goods, lard, oils, wool, hides and skins, etc., etcthe entire...

... of the modern bakeshop, the account of the macaroni industry, and the pages on the production and use of breakfast foods. Some light is thrown upon the nature of the process of bleaching of flour which has recently been the subject of controversy between the flour mill owners and officials of the Department...

.... It had the largest tobacco factories in the world (worked mostly by slave labor) and almost as many flour mills as Baltimore. (It was next to that city in coffee imports, which were exchanged for the flour it shipped to Brazil.) It was the leading southern iron man­ ufacturing town, home of the famous...

... and Acconomy from us. I am Sir Your &c Wm Shannon Condr Gen1. W Dept. 384 The South Atlantic Quarterly Two days later Shannon dispatched a circular letter to the deputy commissaries at the posts in the Western Department instructing them as to the amount of flour, corn, beef, pork, salt, and liquor...

.... According to this story, if King had had his way the Navy would have issued only one com­ munique, and that at the end of the war We won. Everything con­ sidered, Commander Whitehill has done his best with some very refractory material. Theodore ropp Flour for Man s Bread: A History of Milling. By John...

.... During the latter half of the war the Southern Confederacy was in no condition to care properly for its prisoners. With calomel at $20.00 and quinine at $100.00 an ounce, with the cost of other medicines to correspond, and with flour at $70.00 a barrel, when the war was only half over, the best care...

... to grow rich by his trade. Offered the right to deliver eighty pounds of bread to the army for every hundred pounds of flour, he refused, but countered with an offer to give a hundred and thirty pounds of The Pennsylvania Dutch 331 bread instead for every hundred of flour; when Congress could no longer...

... level of numbers, flour-beetles, weevils, and the like are an annoyance rather than a serious danger. Here, cleanliness and order are the chief weapons. Where spilt grain and old sacks are allowed to lie about, the creatures can breed in odd corners. Thus scrupulous cleanliness and tidiness will prevent...

... may be written than of Orangeburg, for it was larger and of more importance. The town was founded about 1750 by a colony of Quakers from Ireland. Flour mills were established there during the colonial period and rebuilt after the Revolution. Pottery works were also opened by an Englishman in colonial...

.... Voglen states that he has put up thirteen thousand pounds of pork and has bought a little flour at thirty dollars a barrel. However, this will soon be exhausted, and he insists on having the supplies at Rocky Mount shipped at once so as to prevent hunger on the part of the poor widows. 13 Vance Private...

... there was no profit in growing cotton. The South was impoverishing itself and enriching the rest of the country by its one crop system. North Carolina did not raise its own household supplies and it bought commercial fer­ tilizers while allowing the domestic fertilizers to go to waste. Virginia bought its flour...

...; and the grocer s cans have lost their labels, the tailor has sewn shut his own zipper, the cost of liquor has gone up, the baker is ill with flour-fever, and the salesman is impotent with every buyer but his wife. Each medium of commu­ nication is on fire with the fire of the world, a universe of excite­ ment...

... and a bergantin sailed with new settlers for Uraba, one of them a stowaway, who with his dog Leoncico had been smuggled aboard in a flour cask. The following ten years and three hundred pages focus on Balboa. By the time of his execution in January, 1519, the coast had been explored from the Gulf of Paria...

... things, he had a nailery, gristmill, flour mill, and a cloth factory producing some two thousand yards a year. But for many the supreme interest in this record will derive from its association with Jefferson s political philosophy. Little wonder that he thought those who labored in the earth the chosen...