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A Chinese flour mill, province of Chi-Li, North China, 1883. Creator: Unknown.

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A Chinese flour mill, province of Chi-Li, North China, 1883. 'The peculiar method of grinding corn, or rather pulverising it in a mortar, by raking over it large pieces of heavy stone, which is commonly practised in Chi-li, one of the northern provinces in China, is illustrated in a Sketch by one of our Artists who lately travelled in that country. The vessel used as a mortar is a kind of basket, with interstices along its sides, through which the coarse flour descends upon the table, and is there shovelled up and collected, to be afterwards passed through the sieves, a pair of which, in large square frames divided into several compartments, are seen resting against the wall. The pounding process needs to be repeated again and again, before the flour is reduced to a state fit for making bread. Millet is consumed far more abundantly, in the North of China, than wheat, barley, or any other cereal grain; but throughout the middle and southern provinces, rice is the staple article of food...Although so deficient in machinery for the proper treatment of grain, the Chinese agriculturists are very industrious, manuring and tilling their small plots of land with incessant care and labour'. From "Illustrated London News", 1883.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A50_295

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24,1Mo (3,6Mo) / 30,2cm x 20,0cm / 3566 x 2360 (300dpi)

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