Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett.
- William Cobbett
- Date:
- 1822
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Cottage economy : containing information relative to the brewing of beer, making of bread, keeping of cows, pigs, bees, ewes, goats, poultry and rabbits, and relative to other matters deemed useful in the conducting of the affairs of a labourer's family / by William Cobbett. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![dress, and have every thing in order. No scolding ] within doors about the grist; no squeaking in the | stye ; no boy sent off in the rain to the mill. 97. But, there is one advantage which I have not yet mentioned, and which is the greatest of all; | namely, that you would have the power of supplying j your married labourers, your blacksmiths’ men some- 1 times, your wheelwrights’ men at other times ; and, indeed, the greater part of the persons that you em- ployed, with good flour, instead of their going to pur- chase this flour, after it had passed through the hands of I a Corn Merchant, a Miller, a Flour Merchant, and a Huckster, every one of whom, does and must, have , a profit out of the flour, arising from wheat grown upon, and sent away from, your very farm ! I used to let all my people have flour at the same price that they would otherwise have been compelled to give for worse flour. Every Farmer will understand me when I say, that he ought to pay for nothing in money, which he can pay for in any thing but money. Their 1 maxim is to keep the money that they take as long ; as they can. Now here is a most effectual way of putting that maxim in practice to a very great extent. Farmers know well that it is the Saturday night which empties their pockets ; and here is the means of cutting off a good half of the Saturday night. The](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21527489_0081.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
