American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-06-26
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


The farmers way to wealth and
prosperity is to take care of what he
has and what he produces.
To Clean Zinc dissolve two ounces
alum in one quart OF vinegar and clean
the zinc with this as hot as you can use
| it.
To Clean Straw Hats.-Rub the
soiled straw with a cut lemon, and wash
off the juice with water. Stitfen with
gum water.
Vinegar for sweet pickles: To one
gallon of vinegar add three pounds OF
sugar, two tablespoons cloves, ditto cas-
STA, and bring 20 good boil.
Several agricultural journals are
recommending bitter aloes as lice ex-
terminator on cattle. 1t is to be applied
in powdered form, by busting it into the
hair on the animal.
Furniture can be washed with warm
soap-suds, quickly wiped dry, and then
rubbed with an oily cloth. To polish
it, rub it with rotIe.stone and sweet oil.
Clean off the oil and polish with chamois
skin.
| Vermont is the greatest maple-sugar
producing S; ate in the Union. Its av-
erage yield is about 5000, 900 pounds,
worth 800, 900, or about an average al
lowance of thirty pounds for each in
habitant.
Liquid Bluing.-Take best Prussian
blue, pulverized,- one ounce; oxalic
acid, also pulverized, one-half ounce;
soft water, one quart; mix. One or two
tablespoonfuls of it is sufficient for a tub
of wafer. according to size of tub.
Danish butter commands the high
est price in any market in London dur
| ing the winter months. 1t is said to
be the best because the COWS in Dem
mark calve between the months of
November and January, and they and
| their product are much better cared for
than in any other butter-producing coun-
try in Europe.
Cutting the Hair-Cutting the hair
does not, as commonly thought, pro-
mote its growth. Most of the specifics
| recommended for badness, not except
ing petroleum, are mere stimulants,
and are seldom or never permanently
successful. Some of them give rise to
congestion of the scalp. When a slim
ulant is desirable, ammonia is the best.
1t is safe.
-Ginger-Snaps.- together one
large cup of butter and lard (mixed)
with one cup sugar, one cup molasses,
one half-cup water, one tablespoonful
each of ginger and cinnamon. one tea
spoonful ground cloves, one teaspoon
full soda dissolved in hot water, and
flour enough to make pretty stiff
dough. Roll out thin and bake in
pretty hot oven.
AT the National Butter, Cheese and
Egg Convention held recently at Indian
apolis, one speaker said he knew of but
one process by which eggs could be
kept from two to four months in cold
storage. Use clean old oats. and pack
fresh eggs in a temperature of from
thirty six to forty degrees. The trouble
with Western eggs, it was explained, is
that they are not gathered and packed
when fresh.
Cucumber Catsup.-Grate three
dozen large zcucumbers and twelve
white onions; put three handfuls of
salt over them. They must be pre-
pared the day beforehand, and in the
morning lay them to drain; soak a cup
full and half of mustard seed, drain it
and add to the cucumbers, with two
spoonfuls of whole pepper; put them in
keep in a dry place.
The refuse fat of the kitchen may
be turned to economical use as feed for
lay. Of course where soap is made it
will all be thus used, but it is a question
whether it is not much easier and more
profitable to buy the soap and make the
hons lay by feeding them the fat. Ev-
erything that is not wanted for cooking
purposes, should be boiled up with the
vegetables for the fowls.
Bun Loaf-Take five pounds OF
flour and five teaspoonfuls of soda, mix
well; add one pound raisins,- one pound
currants, two ounces candied peel, two
ounces citron. half-pound brown sugar,
half-pound treacle, half-pound lard or
butter. two teaspoonfuls allspice. When
these are well mixed add as much fresh
buttermilk as will make it the right
consistency, Bake slowly in deep tins,
as it will rise considerably.
Prof. Kedzie, of the Agricultural
Department of the Michigan University,
recently said that a paint or wash made
of skim milk. thoroughly skinned. and
water brine will render wood uninflam-
mable, and he proved it by experiment.
He said this paint, or whitewash, is
durable, very cheap, impervious to wa
ter. of agreeable color and as it will
prevent wood from taking fire, he
urged its use. particularly on roofs,
Oul-DuIluluSS, DaruS, etc
"A correspondent of the Rural Nem
Yorker says that a good washing fluid
which will not injure the clothes may
be made by dissolving one pound OF
potash in one gallon Of water, add one
ounce of ammonia, and enc ounce salts
of-tartar. When you wash add one |
teacupful of this fuid to q boiler OF
clothes. Soap must be added, and the |
clothes sOaped on the most soiled |
places. The clothes should be soaked |
over night In the morning wiring |
them out, and boil as stated above.
Tomato Salad. Peel and slice the !
tomatoes, put into a salad dish and |
pour over them dressing prepared as |
follows: Three yelks of hard-b boiled |
eggs, pounded; one beaten raw egg, |
one teaspoonful of cayenne, one tea |
spoonful of white sugar, two tablespoon
fuls of salad oil, one teaspoonful of
made mustard, one-half teacupful vine-
gar. Mix yelks, mustard, pepper. salt,
sugar and oil to paste. Beat in the |
raw egg with your whisk, finally, the |
oil a little at a time. Stir a great hump i.
of ice into the dressing, VIII ring rap |
idly for half minute. Take it out and |
pour the mixture over the salad.
Strawberry Custard. Make nice
boiled custard of a quart of milk and
the yelks of five eggs properly sweet
ened. Boil till it thickens to the rirht !
take it off the fire, and put
in the favoring. Take gill of sugar
and pint of ripe strawberries; crush
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