American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-01-22
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Save your horse from lameness and
coughs by covering him immediately
after n drive, if only stopping for q few
minutes Horses need no covering
| when i'll active exercise, even in "A
storm; but thorough rubbing and COW
ering is essential rs soon as the exercise
is over.
-Suet Pudding.-One cup of mo-
lasses, two eggs, one cup of beef suet,
salt, one cup of milk, one cup of raisins
and currants. one teaspoonfu. of soda,
four cups of flour. Mix these ingredi-
ents well together, and put in n closely
covered tin pudding mold. Steam for
three hours.
-Hickory-nut Macaroons. - Make
frosting as for cake; stir in enough
pounded hickory-nut meats, with mixed
ground spice to taste, to make con-
venient to handle. Flour the hands and
form the mixture into little balls. Place
on buttered tins, allowing room to
spread, and bake in quick oven.
"A woman who has raised q large
number of hens says that after vainlY
trying the recommended remedies for
lice, she has hit upon the plan of Civ
ing them once or twice a week q large
loaf made of Graham flour, in which a
handful of sulphur has been mixed. The
hens like it, and are freed from lice and
kept healthy through the season. That
is certainly the easiest plan we have yet
seen suggested. AS such, it is worth q
trial.
The reader may be curious to know
the amount of water which will enter at
each joint. According to the expert
ence of draining engineer of trust
worthy reputation, if an acre of land be
inserted with parallel drains twelve
yards apart, and if on that acre should
fall the very unusual quantity of one
inch of rain in twelve hours, in order
that every drop of this rain may be dis
charged by the drains in forty-cight
hours the interval between the two
pipes will be called on to pass two
| thirds of a teaspoonful of water per
minute and no more. 1 prefer the nom
porous to porous tiles. The latter aid
but little, if any, in the flow of water
and are not SO durable. They crumble
to pieces when exposed to frost and are
often injuriously affected by very cold
weather at a depth of two feet or more
in the son.-N. y World.
Uses OF Stale Bread. Make
dressing for meat: crumb it fine, turn
hot broth over it, season. add butter
! and well-beaten egg. or more, accord
my 10 Qudutlty Z. Mdho Ufedu- pun
ding: soak two hours in sweet milk,
then beat eggs, sugar, and spices. and
bake; add fruit if desired. 3. Make
biscuit: soak overnight in sour milk,
mash well with the hand, mix with bis
cult for breakfast, adding salt. Lard,
and soda. They are better than with
out the stale bread. 4. Mako pancakes
or gems: soak over night in sour milk;
add well-beaten eggs, corn-meal. or
Graham flour to make batter; add
soda and salt, and bake on a griddle or
in gem-pans. 5. Crumb fine and put
them in the next omclet you make. 6.
Toast your bread; set a pan of milk on
the stove, but do not remove the
cream from it; add butter and salt; dip
the bread In this and send to the table
for supper or breakfast. Z. Crumb fine
and put in your tomatoes when you are
stewing them. 8. Pound fine, season,
and roll oysters or fresh fish in them,
and fry in nice lard.