At the present moment, unexpectedly, the country mill shows signs
of renewed vitality. There is a dispersion of population going on which raises the distribution costs of the port miller. Government assistance has brought the wheat acreage back to its immediately post-War level. Internal organization and Government support is increasing the number of pigs. Poultry-keeping is becoming a major part of the farm economy. The country mill, with increasing numbers about it both of human beings and of domestic animals, finds itself with work to do. The movement of the milling industry from the ports back to the parish is as yet, only in its merest beginning. It is symptomatic of the redressing of the balance of the new but already dilapidated world of Victorian urbanization by calling in the old world of local town-and-country mutuality. It will show probably not in the clapping of the mill-wheel but in the hum of the dynamo. It is the principle, not the mechan- ism, which is important. Mills at work once again all over the country will be a welcome sight to everyone.
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