The clothing department of the British army lent a listening ear to the business proposals made to it, and the work began.

From that time on it has been the main substantial resource against suffering and starvation of the families of some three hundred labourers in the hill country near Baron's Court.
These labourers work for the small farmers from April to November; and between the autumn and the spring their wives and daughters knit, and by the Baron's Court machinery are enabled to dispose of, nearly twenty thousand pairs of woollen socks.

The yarns are brought from Edinburgh to the store-house at Baron's Court.

Thither every Wednesday come the knitters.

Mrs.Dixon weighs the hanks of yarn, and gives them out.
On the following Wednesday the knitters reappear, each with her bale of stockings or socks.