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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
25 
A Boy Begimeut-Good. 
We have just heard that in a Western County 
(name and location not given,) there were a large 
number of patriotic boys, very desirous of doing 
something for their country in these times; hut 
their ages, (13 to 16,) prevented their being received 
as volunteers in the army. But they did the 
next best thing. A regular regiment was formed, 
with Colonel, Major, captains, lieutenants, corpo¬ 
rals, etc., and all were fully armed,-not with guns 
and swords, but with good buck-saws and axes,—a 
few of them as “ engineers ” and “ sappers and 
miners,” carried beetles and wedges. They organ¬ 
ized under the name of “ The Wood Cutters’ Regi¬ 
ment.” Thus organized, they sent out all through 
the county, “ scouts,” who hunted up every family 
from which an adult had gone forth to the war. 
The volunteers then separated into “ divisions,” 
“ companies,” and “ battalions,” and commenced a 
vigorous assault upon the wood-piles of all these 
families, and made short work of cutting up a good 
winter’s supply of fuel. “ Foraging parties,” with 
teams, procured and hauled wood, where a supply 
was*not on hand. The regiment will not disband 
before Spring, but keep up the battle until the ene¬ 
my, under Gen. Frost, is compelled to retire to the 
northern borders of Queen Victoria’s American 
Possessions. Good for these young soldiers, we 
say. Here is .an example worthy of universal 
imitation. Let us have such a regiment in every 
county in the country. Send us the nq.mes of the 
regiments, and tjte officers, and we shall gladly 
publish them in our roll of honor. Every private 
in such a regiment will be a “ high private.”—One 
hint more. While about it, don’t stop with the fami¬ 
lies of soldiers. Let the scouting parties enrol the 
name of every poor widow to be found, and let them 
be defended against any possible disturbance from 
Gen. Frost. We recall; with pleasure, the fact that 
in more peaceful times we once held a captain’s 
commission, in a company organized to supply and 
cut wood for each family in the neighborhood 
whose natural provider was dead, or disabled by 
sickness. Never shall we forget the pleasure ex¬ 
perienced by every member under our “ command” 
when we deposited ten loads of wood at a door 
where the man of the house was sick, and the fam¬ 
ily ■■were in bed at mid-day, to keep wdrni— their 
last stick having been biu-ned up the day before: If 
boys ever chopped wood with a will, it was on the 
afternoon of that day. If ever boys went to bed 
feeling joyful, it was our company on the night of 
that day.—When, and where shall we hear from 
the second wood-sawers’ regiment for this Winter ? 
Correct answers received from: Wm. J. Badger, 24 , D. 
Wightman, 21, 22; Corley B. Shoemaker; Edward T. 
Moore, 25, 26 ; Jarvis H. Arnold, 25, 26 ; J. It. Mentzer, 
25 ; “Amateur,” 25, 26 ; H. Elliott McBride, 26 ; Torrey 
Kirk, 25, 26 ; “ F. B. C.,” 26 ; Walter S. Wales, 25, 26 ; 
Frank Fancher, 25 ; J. It. Parkison, 25 ; Emily Clark and 
Ella Skilton, 25, 26; Ellery W. Newton, 25, 26, (would 
like to see the enigma, but can not promise to publish it;) 
“ E. D.” 25, 26; Isaac T. McLain, 26 ; “ Jo,” 25, 26 ; A. 
R. and J. C. Murray, 25 ; U. F. Hallenbeck, 25; Robert 
M. Taggart, 25, 26; J. W. Freley, 25; (‘Americas,25, 
26 ; Alfred W. Wolcott,. Co. B, 4th Reg. Iowa Volunteers, 
stationed at Rolla, Mo., 25 ; James V. Grey, 25 ; C. L. and 
A. C. Siewers, 25; Geo. B. Hedges. 25 ; C. L. Vest, 25 ; 
Benjamin F. Hoyt, 25, 26; J. W. Chisholm, 26; Sarah H. 
McBarney, 25 ; H. Z. Cande, 26; Ellen Forbes, 25 ; E. 
Washburn, 26 ; John Strinkard, 25, 26 ; Martin Edwards, 
25, 26; Katie M. Humphrey, 25 ; W. Jay, 25 ; A. Coombs, 
25 ; Mary Gifford, 25; Edgar Holcomb, 26; Augustus 
Reifstack, 25 ; H. F. Miles, 25 ; Franklin M. Rose, 28, 29; 
Nathan Tyler, 28, 29 ; Jarvis H. Arnold, 27, 28, 29 ; Ella 
C. Marshall, 29 ; L. E. Rockwell, 29 ; Mary A'. Elliott, 
27, 28, 29; Sarah Elliott, 27 ; Sophey Joice, 28, 29 ; Jessie 
May land, 28, 29 ; Rufus W. Weeks, 27, 28, 29 ; Misses 
Emma Littell, Hattie and Amanda Banks, 27, 28, 29 ; 
Charles L. and Sallie M. Siewers, 27, 28, 29; H. B. Jack- 
son, 29 ; Andrew S. Miller, 28; Amos M. Peck, 29. 
A Royal Barber. 
Joseph. H, emperor of Austria, was fond of trav¬ 
eling incognito, or in citizen’s dress: One day he 
reached a little inn on his route, before the rest of 
his company came up, and entering into a retiring 
room, he commenced shaving himself. The in¬ 
quisitive landlord was anxious to know what post 
his guest held in the emperor’s retinue, and in¬ 
quired. “I am his barber” was his majesty’s reply. 
Only a Sample. 
The comic Burton, while sailing up the Hud¬ 
son River, took his seat at the dinner table, and 
called for a beefsteak. The waiter brought him a 
very small piece, only enough for a taste. Mr. B. 
took it upon his fork, turned it over, examined it 
particularly, and with a comical look exclaimed: 
“ Yes, that’s it, bring me some.” 
“ Fred,” said a little four-year old, “give me six¬ 
pence to buy a monkey.” “ We’ve got one monkey 
in the house now,” replied the elder brother. 
“Who is it, Fred ?’ asked the little fellow. “ You,” 
was the reply. “ Then give me sixpence to buy the 
monkey some nuts.” His brother “shelled out.” 
EXTRAORDINARY EXHIBITION. 
“KING CORN ” in Koyal Array—Im- 
cheapness, fair quality, and adaptability to general family 
use, oaten cold, as well as hot, and when from one to three 
days old. Full directions for making were to accompany 
each loaf. 
- Not having advertised the exhibition, beyond the single 
announcement in this journal, and not receiving many 
responses in advance, we began to fear the war would 
divert attention from what appeared to us to be an im 
portant enterprize for the ’.public, But Thursday even 
ing (Dec. 12th,) specimens began to arrive ; Friday morn 
ing the Express Companies, and others, called freqt ently, 
with from one to a dozen loaves ; Saturday morning the 
inflowing current grew stronger and larger, until finally 
the entries reached over two hundred (219). Several 
entries being for duplicated loaves,' the entire number of 
specimens reached some 250! As will be seen below, 
these came from the distant West, from the Middle States 
as far South as Maryland, and from the North and East. 
A space of seventy four feet of wide table room was 
closely filled with a most imposing display of loaves of 
all sizes, from nearly half a bushel down to patty-pan 
corn meal biscuits, and small Corn meal crackers—and not 
bad crackers either. There were pure corn meal loaves, 
and loaves of “Rye and Indian;” loaves one part wheat 
or rye flour with three parts corn meal, and loaves appa¬ 
rently half meal and half flour, with loaves of every inter¬ 
mediate combination. There were pumpkin loaves, 
corn meal dodgers, corn meal pound cake, corn meal 
pone, corn meal crullers, corn meal “ nut-cakes,” corn 
meal baked puddings, and corn meal what-nots. 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 every where 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 15 cts. a bushel than there are bushels 
of wheat now oh 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 henceforth largely increase their family pur¬ 
chases and use of corn meal. The general feeling seemed 
to be that of a good farmer housewife from Central New- 
Jersey, who brought in a noble loaf, expecting to get the 
first prize among a few competitors. She exclaimed 
“ Wa’U, wa’ll, this beats all. Who’d a thought it ? I al¬ 
ways stood up for using corn, but I never did think so 
many things could be made of it. Corn IS King.” Wt 
certainly felt much as she did. 
At the urgent request of many gentlemen who wished 
to bring in their wives and daughters, we concluded to 
continue the exhibition over until Thursday, and on the 
evening of that day handed o ver to the Ladies’ Five Points 
Mission enough to feed many hundreds of poverty strick¬ 
en ones under their care or over-sight—a source of satis- - 
faction certainly to the many whose fair hands had mixed 
and fashioned these loaves. The good keeping quality 
of most of the specimens was well tested by this delay. 
The general results of the exhibition can but be widely 
useful, not only to the visitors, and to pur own readers 
who will, in future numbers of the Agriculturist, find a 
hundred or more of the best recipes, but the Editors of 
other journals were present and made notes, and will 
send abroad the hints and suggestions they here derived. 
The public notice thus drawn to the subject will awaken 
far more general attention to the value of Indian Corn. 
We regret that our January number is so nearly closed 
up that we can only give this month, 
A CONDENSED GENERAL REPORT. 
The specimens, as they came in, were entered in a book, 
numbered from 1, upward, the name and location of the 
exhibitor removed, and the directions placed upon the 
table with the loaves. In this way the Committee of 
Judges had before them the directions for each speci¬ 
men, while they had not the slightest clue to the name or 
location of any exhibitor. They made their notes and de¬ 
cisions by the entry numbers alone. 
The exhibitors, at least, will be interested to xr/cw that 
the committee of judges were carefully selec ted. The 
first named is a practical baker of Flushing, N. Y., ef ex 
perience and good judgment: the second for a long time a 
baker of this City, was named to us by others in the 
same business, as one who would exercise sound discre¬ 
tion and good taste •; the third, a well known farmer ol 
Westchester County, whose large experience as an ex 
hibitor, manager, and judge, at various agricultural fairs 
was useful as the overseer. The three ladies we know 
to be good housekeepers. The first-named resided long 
in the South, where they pride themselves on good “corn 
Problems, Puzzles, etc. 
Under this head we shall try to furnish some 
amusement, combined with instruction, for onr 
young readers. Unfortunately we have only room 
in this paper for the Illustrated Rebus below, which 
conveys a good sentiment. It is so easy, that the 
very littlp folks can probably read it, we think. 
No. l. 
Answers to Problems. 
Below we give the names, not before reported, of 
those, who have sent in answers to problems in last 
volume. The numbers after each name tell the 
number of each problem answered by any one. 
No. 27— Illustrated Rebus (See Dec. No., page 375. 
■Answer: Piece two Bs E cur E RE quires J UST 
ice —or thus; Peace to be secure requires justice. 
No. 28— Miigma. Answer : Drill. 
No. 29— Puzzle. Answers: 1st. T-h-a-t—2d. i-t. 
mouse display of CORN BREAD, CORN 
CAKES, . etc. Over 200 Specimens 
from all parts of the Country, 
witli Specifications for Mak¬ 
ing each—Interesting and 
Valuable Information. 
In November last we stated that, taking into account 
the current prices of Corn, Wheat, and Potatoes, in dif¬ 
ferent parts of the country, West as well as East, and 
estimating the relative proportion.of healthful nutriment 
furnished by a bushel of each, it seemed evident that 
A similar amount of nourishment would be obtained from: 
40 Cents expended in purchasing CORN. 
100 Cents expended in purchasing WHEAT. 
160 Cents expended in purchasing POTATOES, 
and that with the present large crop of Indian Corn, and 
the great foreign demand for Wheat, it was especially im¬ 
portant to use more corn for food, and save our Wheat 
to sell.-In order to call out information upon the best 
methods of cooking- Indian corn meal, we proposed, in the 
December Agriculturist,, to have an exhibition of Corn 
Bread, and Corn Cake at our office on December 14th.— 
Premiums of $10, $5, and $2, were offered .for the best, 
second best, and third best loaves of Bread, consisting 
mainly of Com meal; also an extra premium of $4 for 
the best loaf of Cake of any kind in which corn meal 
should be the chief ingredient. A Special Cake Premium 
--As the extra premium of $4 for Corn Cake was limited 
somewhat by the cost, we afterward decided to add to our 
published premiums a special premium of $2 to be award¬ 
ed to the Best Corn Cake of any kind, without regard to 
cost. The main requisites for the Bread were to be: 
