American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-04-10
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Land that will grow corn or an av-
erage hay crop is suited for the growth
| of ash.
"A poultry house need not be ex-
| pensive. But it must be comfortable,
and must be kept clean.
Rub linseed oil on walnut picture
frames to brighten them. Use piece
of muslin, first busting the frames
well.
In cooking fowl, to ascertain
when it is done, put a skewer into the
breast, and if the breast is tender the
fowl is done.
Fish of every kind are best some
are unfit for food some time after they
have spawned.
To Trap Ants: Put slice or two of
bread, with little honey spread over
it. The ants will draw to it quickly
until it is black all over. Then pour
boiling water over them and repeat the
dose when required.
-Sponge-cake: One cup white sugar,
four eggs, one cup flour, two teaspoon
fuls of baking-powder, thoroughly
mixed in the flour; flavor with lemon;
beat the eggs and sugar together until
very light, and bake in a quick oven.
There is just as much difference be-
tween the eggs of fowls allowed to
roam and forage for themselves, and
those which are fed regularly on good,
nutritious food, as there is between a
leg of Southdown mutton and that of a
common, half-starved sheep.
Young calves fed together are apt
to suck each other, which is a great
In tod
while feeding, and for an hour after
ward, they will not do this. Sucking
each others ears in cold weather causes
the ears to freeze at the edges.
-Molasses Cake. Take one cupful
Of molasses (New Orleans is best), one
cupful of sour cream, not very rich, ono
level teaspoonful of soda, salt and GIN
ger, and flour sufficient to make il
rather stiff. As molasses scorches
easily, rather slow oven is better for
this.
Bread and Butter Budding. But
ter the bottom of you pudding-dish and
strew with currants, then a layer of
bread, cut very thin and buttered; re-
peat until the dish is nearly full; make
custard of one quart of milk, two
eggs. seasoned with vanilla and salt;
pour on the bread, and let it stand one
hour, and bake.
An exceedingly nice dish of corn
and chicken may be made as follows:
Prepare chicken as for fricassee by
carefully removing the feathers and en-
trails and cutting it in joints; fry it
light brown in a little butter, add a
quart of milk and the grains cut from
dozen ears of corn; season the stew
with salt and pepper, and cook it slow
ly for half an hour; serve it hot with
small pieces of toast or bread fried in
hot fat.
Mr.. John Brooks, of Princeton,
Mass, a breeder of Jerseys, says he
has made $4,000 profit by stock-rais-
ing, in the past seventeen years. He
feeds carrots, and thinks they increase
the flow of milk, and improve the looks
and quality of the butte.., which needs
no artificial coloring. Beets. will in
crease the milk more than carrots, but
the butter is not SO good. He finds it
hard to raise the calves on clear Jersey
milk, and advises the feeding of skim
milk.
Grease can be removed from stone
steps or passages by pouring on it
strong soda water boiling hot; then
make fuller's earth into thin paste
with boiling water; spread it over the
stain or spot and let it remain all night.
If the grease has soaked and dried in it
may be necessary to repeat this for two
or three nights, scrubbing it off each
morning with strong soap suds and I've.
When houses are under repair and be-
ing painted it is important that one
should keep watch for such oil spots,
as painters are not over-careful in
handling their oils, and such spots are
very annoying.