Show ducran are the quern is among the oldest and mot mo t primitive of mechanisms for the binding rinding rin ding of strain there is a fixed I 1 nc uin above it a rotating one there ii i i a anle in the middle of alu upper or atone intolini h ih grain ib dropped A stick fix J int the upper blone permits of it lem moved around A run through bogli stones it is a rood machine but to dav less the quern irith but vei y little variations riat ions as it wasu ed in prehistoric times is made and sold and grinds its grain today to day in the orkney and islands what a patent flour making mill of the present day would coat wo do not know but a few years ago a good quern could be made in shetland for about one dollar |