American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-12-06
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.


-Crackers.-Take nine cups flour, one
cup lard, two cups water, two teaspoons
cream-tartar and one teaspoon saleratus
First rub the lard into the flour and add
two teaspoons salt.
"A new style of wall paper for dining
rooms has medallions of game and birds,
real skin and real feathers being used.
The figures are raised on light back
ground, which i. very effective: Flowers
are also introduced of wax and linen tied
together with brightcolored ribbon.
Ammonia for Bloat.-A California
farmer recently cured, almost instantly,
COW which had suddenly become seri-
ously bloated from eating cucumbers too
rapidly, by giving a tablespoonful and
half of ammonia IN Il half pint of water.
The relief was immediate and complete.
"A solution of five parts of borax in
one hundred of water it is said will pre-
vent the putretactive process in meats tor
a considerable time; flesh, dipped In the
mixture and then dried resists the usual
processes of decomposition. For dissect-
ing rooms, the taXidermist. and those en-
gagged in preparing cabinet specimens of
animal tissues, this solution can be put to
important uses.
Hogs to fatten should have, especial
", comfortable place to sleep. We re-
Gently saw in a respectable farmers pen
six stalwart animals of this species, with
no place to rest themselves except in mud
from two to four inches deep. At least
one half of what was fed to them was en-
tirely lost by this utter want of attention
to one of the prime necessities in this de-
partment OF farming
Bean Porridge.-Boil a fresh beef
bone (salt beef would answer if
sufficiently freshened, though we never
.-N l,, Il -ofn md
| use the meat for anything you choose,
Let the liquid become cool, and remove
all the grease. Boil teacupful of beans
in three quarts of this liquor until thor
| oughly soft and in pieces; add a little
| rice, the necessary amount of salt, and
| just before taking from the stove, little
! thickening of some kind of meal.
| Use it about the thickness of cruel or
gravies and add little milk when you eat.
-Hygienic Use of Tea.-Dr. Adam
| Smith, in paper read before the London
Society of Arts, recommends the use of
| tea in the following cases After full
meal, when the system is oppressed; for
the corpulent and the old; for hot eli
mates, and especially tor those who,
| living there, eat freely or drink milk or
alcohol in cases of suspended animation;
| for soldiers who in time of peace take too
much food in relation to the waste pro-
ceeding in the body; for soldiers and
others marching in hot climates, for then,
by promoting evaporation and cooling the
body, it prevents in a degree the effects of
too much food, as of too great heat"
| -Burgardien's Paste Glue-M. Burgar-
diem, of the Museum of Narbonne, has
| given his name to a cement of great value,
which is, however, nothing more than
| sillicate of potassa. 1t is used to join or
solder together various broken things,
such as iron, blocks of stone, marble or
wood of the largest size, or the most deli.
cate fragments of statuary, vases, mosaics,
pottery, glass-in short, almost anything.
| With a small brush spread the sillicate of
| liquid potassa over the surfaces to be
joined, then press them together rs close
Ay as possible. After being kept in this
position short time. they adhere perfect
| "; one may even strike the article a con-
siderable blow without breaking it.
Neither fire, water or ice affects this arti-
fetal adhesion.
| -Nails.-Every farmer who has had
occasion to drive nail into seasoned oak
posts knows its liability to bend and
break. If the point be moistened in the
mouth it will usually drive more kindly.
| Oil is still better, but then it is inconven-
lent to dip each nail separately into it.
Another point observed is that boards be-
come loose eventually from the rusting Of
the nails, which, communicating to the
wood, cause not only an enlargement of
the nail hole, but the wearing away of the
nail itself, rendering the fence or the
building shaky and insecure. This may
be prevented by heating any rough grease
until it smokes and then pouring it over
| the nails to be used. The grease will
penetrate the pores of the iron, and cause
the nails to last, without rusting, an in
definite period. Besides this no trouble
will then be experienced in driving them
into the hardest wood. The reason is that
the coating of grease prevents contact by
air, and consequently oxidation. Oxygen
is the great destroyer of iron, and moisture
is the inducing cause.