Lumber: The Making Of The Pillsbury Company

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Back in the eighteen hundreds, flour, lumber, and iron weren't so easy to get, but they made it, and the money those jobs made was very good. here's why. Back in the day, flour was very nice quality for many reasons, but here are only three.
First flour is made from wheat, and it is also used in baking and cooking. It makes food rise and taste nice.
It takes three hundred fifty ears of wheat to make enough flour for one loaf of bread, and one bushel (one and a quarter cubic feet) makes forty-two pounds of flour.
Then do you know the Pillsbury company? Well, they make lots of things. Back then Charles Pillsbury made the company, and they have been making flour for fifteen years before he came. Lumber was also very important because

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