American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1880-08-07
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Royal Plum Cake.-One pound of
flour. one and Il half teaspoonfuls of
baking powder, a little salt, quarter of
a pound each of butter, sugar and cur
rants, two eggs, and half pint of
milk.
Lemonade. cold tea diluted with
water or milk and fresh buttermilk, are
recommended as excellent drinks -
much better than cold water for those
who work in the sun. But too much
drink of any kind is hurtful-
Rice Cream.-Two heaping table,
spoons of raw rice, one quart milk,
two tablespoons sugar, little salt;
bake one hour or an hour an n half,
stirring frequently while baking. The
oven should be n quick one.
Ice Cream.-Six eggs, two and one
half quarts milk, two and one-half
cups sugar, pinch of salt, flavor to suit
with vanilla. When fruit is used extra
sugar must be added to the strained
juice according to the tartness of the
fruit.
"A few rubbing-posts set up in past
ures will save injury to the fences.
Cattle will use these conveniences very
often; and it is worth all the trouble,
says an agricultural writer, to witness
the enjoyment of the animals in the
use of them.
Ices. -Finely-flavored apples, grated
fine and sweetened very sweet, are de-
licious when frozen. Peaches, pears
and ounces are fine, either grated fine
or stewed and run through a sieve, then
made very sweet and frozen. The flavor
is better when the fruit is grated than
when it is stewed.
Milk Chocolate.-Melt six ounces
of chocolate over steam, add one quart
of milk, an d two ounces of powdered
sugar. When scalding hot pour upon
it the yeiks of five eggs, beaten up
with a cup of cold milk. Add half n
teaspOonful of extract of vanilla or
orange-flo wer water, milling or stirring
it very fast. and serve at once.
Chicken Cheese.-Boil two chick
ems till tender; take ont all the bones
and chop the meat fine; season to taste
with salt, pepper and butter; pour in
enough of the liquor they are boiled in
to make moist. Mold it in any shape
you choose, and when cold turn out and
cut into slices. 1t is an excellent trav-
cling lunch.
The Germantown Telegraph sug-
gests that our agricultural societies,
which give so many and high premiums
for fast trotting horses, might at least
spare little for the encouragement of
the food which the noble animal is to
eat. Premiums for well grown hay,
clean hay. hay from improved grasses
and well-managed hay-felds, it thinks,
would surely be objects worthy of the
attention of even estate Agricultural
Society,""
Vigorous, healthy fowls may almost
always be detected by the rich color
of their combs, which is sure indica-
ton of health. The comb of diseased
fowl always loses color in pro portion as
the disease approaches its worst stages,
in some instances turning black. We
would advise those who suspect disease
among their fowls to give the matter
of the color of the comb a close study.
AS an idex, it is to the fowl-keeper what
the pulse of the human subject is to the
physician.
Prof. Prentiss reports the expert
mine the number of seeds usually exist
ing in cultivated soils. Small portions
of the soil were measured in bulk, and
the number of weeds obtained from
these portions in pots counted. From
these results, after a number of trials,
it was determined that from eight mill
ion to forty million seeds usually exist
in cultivated soils-enough to supply
any number found in farm crops with
out resorting to the notion of transmit
tation. The only soils in which the seeds
of weeds were not found were peat
from bog after the top was removed,
and sand from an area recently graded.
AT one of the Michigan Farmers
Institutes Prof. Ingersoll asked the es-
sayist what he considered to be the
value of permanent pasture for stock.
The reply was: 81 regard June grass
and white clover as the very best past
ure and it yields the largest quantity
per acre. 1 regard it as a mistaken
idea that an old pasture must be plowed;
better put harrow upon it and give it
top dressing of plaster" Another
gentleman remarked that he had piece
of land that has been clovered thirty
years; after one crop it was self-seeded;
since that time it has been pasture.
There are six acres in it, and it yields
more than any other ten acres on the
farm.
Care Of Horses Feet,