American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-08-23
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

HARNESS, it is said, may be rendered
impervious to water by thoroughly inn
ORIGINATING it with IL mixture made in the
proportion of twenty-one gallons of pure
whale oil, and fifteen to seventeen pounds
of india rubber shreds. Heat these in
gradients together at a temperature of
from 1874 to $40 degrees in order that the
rubber may be completely dissolved.
Ice CREAM-A correspondent of Hearth
and H0lne gives the following recipe for
ice cream: 1--WE have used the following
recipe for several years, and the combina
ton seems to suit the most fastidious
taste. For a four quart freezer, pints
rich cream, 3 pints new milk. 2 we'll
beaten eggs, Is pounds of sugar, and one
fourth vanilla bean dried sufficiently to
CRATE fine"
BOILED CUsTARD.-Take two table
spoonfuls of corn starch, one quart OF
milk, three eggs, half IA tcaspoonful of salt,
and small piece of butter; heat the milk
to nearly boiling, and add the starch dis
solved in a part of the milk, then add the
eggs, well beaten, with four tablespoon
fuls of powdered sugar; let it boil up
once or twice, stirring it brskly, and it is
done; flavor with lemon or vanilla to your
taste.-Count'y Gentleman.
BoNNY-CLABBER OR LorPERED MILK
milk away in a warm place, covered.
When it turns. e, becomes a smooth,
firm, but not tough cake, like blanc
mange-serve in the same dish. Cut out
carefully with large spoon, and put in
saucers with cream, powdered sugar, and
nutmeg to taste. 1t is better if set on the
ice for an hour before it is brought to the
table. Do not let it stand until the whey
separates from the curd.
How TO PROPAGATE BLACKBERRIEs.-
The roots from a few hills of blackberries,
if carefully dug so that nothing is lost,
will furnish cuttings enough for a great
many plants. Dig in the fall, cut into
pieces of about three inches, tie up in
small bundles, say 100 each, and bury in
a box of sand stored in the cellar. In the
spring, when the earth is moderately
warm, make rows in open ground as you
would for beans, drop the cuttings few
inches apart, cover three or four inches
deep, and await results.
To FARMERs.-Few farmers are aware
of the great profits to be derived from the
raising of broom corn. Two crops can
be raised every season, as it will take only
ninety days for each. The yield is 1000
pounds per acre, and this will bring
in cash six per cents per pound.
Drouths never affect this crop, and our
profita BILE than cotton. Let two or three
acres be planted as an experiment, and
our readers will thank us for calling their
attention to this matter.-Breah0m (Ienas)
Banner.
CHARCOAL FOR FOwLs.-The benefit
which fowls derive from eating charcoal
is, l believe, acknowledged. The method
of putting it before them is, however, not
well understood. Pounded charcoal is
not in the shape in which fowls usually
find their food; and consequently is not
very enticing to them. l have found that
corn burned on the cob, and the refuse
which consists almost entirely of the
grains reduced to charcoal, and still re.
tanning their perfect shape-placed be.
fore them, is greedily eaten by them, with
a marked improvement in their health, as
is shown by the brighter color of their
combs, and their sooner producing a
greater average of eggs to the flock than
before.-.S. Rufus Wason, in tile Poultry
World.
ASK for Prussng's Cider Vinegar and take
no other. Warranted to preserve Pickles.