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meal biscuits, and small corn-meal crackers and not 

 bad crackers either. There were pure corn-meal 

 loaves, and loaves of c rye and Indian ; ' loaves one 

 part wheat or rye flour with three parts corn meal, 

 and loaves apprently half meal and half flour, with 

 loaves of every intermediate combination. There 

 were pumpkin loaves, corn-meal dodgers, corn-meal 

 pound cake, corn-meal pone, corn-meal crullers, corn- 

 meal 6 nut-cakes,' corn-meal baked puddings, and corn- 

 meal whatnots. There were round loaves, square 

 loaves, high loaves, and flat loaves in short, loaves 

 of every conceivable form and shape, for of the two 

 hundred and fifty-odd specimens scarcely two were 

 alike in form and mode of making. The sight was 

 one to gladden not only the hungry, but to cheer the 

 heart of every patriot, when he remembers that corn 

 is our native cereal, that it grows everywhere and in 

 abundance, that it is as yet untouched by any disease, 

 that it is healthful and nourishing, and that to-day 

 one with cash can buy, from ready sellers at the West, 

 more bushels of corn at fifteen cents a bushel than 

 there are bushels of wheat now on the continent. The 

 exhibition showed at a glance the great variety of 

 palatable forms in which corn meal can be worked up. 

 Under or by the side of each specimen were placed 

 the directions for making it. The large concourse of 

 visitors, numbering by thousands, were both surprised 

 and gratified, and many went away resolved to hence- 

 forth largely increase their family purchases and use 

 of corn meal." 



The peculiar fitness of corn for human food, and 



