Cereal products.
1793. France receives favorably our bread stuff, rice, wood, pot and pearl ashes.Thomas Jefferson, Writings (1859), iii. 509. (N.E.D.)
1793. The articles of export are bread stuffs.Id., Report on Commercial Restrictions (Bartlett).
1841. No nation can be perfectly independent which does not raise its own breadstuffs.Mr. White of Indiana, U.S. Senate, Jan. 19: Congressional Globe, p. 76, Appendix.
1842. When the want and desperation of the people may no longer be safely resisted, then, and then only, the breadstuffs of this country are to be admitted.Mr. Clay in the Senate, March 23: id., p. 326, App.
1844. South of Mason and Dixons line they had sufficient breadstuffs to supply the wants of all their people.Mr. Hammett of Mississippi, House of Repr., Feb. 6: id., p. 235.
1848. The Secretary of the Treasury never said that the exports of breadstuffs this fiscal year would be larger than they were the last fiscal year.Mr. Bayly of Va., the same, May 15: id., p. 768.
1852. A Georgia, indeed a Southern breakfast, differs in sundry respects from ours at the North, chiefly however in the matter of breadstuffs.As Good as a Comedy, p. 29 (Phila.).