American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-02
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Steamed Corn Bread-One quart
buttermilk, one pint wheat flour. one
heaping tablespoonful sugar, one large
.easpoonful soda, two eggs, corn meal
o thicken and little salt.
Many turkeys die off very sudden
ly from salt carelessly left in their way.
Sometimes the old brine is turned out
rom meat or fish barrels. Sometimes
it is left upon rock or in troughs where
cattle and sheep have been pastured.
Put your refuse salt where the turkeys
cannot find it.
Speaking of farmers horses, the
National lire Stock Journal 1ali6n - :
kind of animal needed by u
is one weighing from 7
TO fifteen hundred poutS
and half to sixteen hand
pact, vigorous. hardy, act
If, beyond this, it has fiji
style allied to good action,
better.
Experience proves that Ii
and milk are not only food ar
at an early period of lifo9
later, when the functions d
and assimilation are feeble
perverted. A stomach taxed
tony, irritated by improper
famed by alcohol, enfeebled b.
or otherwise untitled for its d
is shown by the various symH
tendant upon indigestion, d
diarrhea, dysentcry and fever
sumo it's work, and do it energ]
on an exclusive diet of bread-a
and lime-water. A bowl
milk may have four tablespo6
lime-water to it with good effe
In nearly all the dir9<
making labels or permanently
ornamental and bearing fruit trceS
hole is to be punched through TIL
metal plate or card, and a wire inserted
to be twisted around a side branch fol
securing it to the tree. This require:
labor, and the wind swings the labe
which wears into the bark, and unles!
the wire is quite stout it ultimately
cracks off. A cheaper, easier, more
secure and safer label for the tree is tt
cut the zinc plate into narrow strips
wider at the end to be written on, anC
narfow at the end to wind around the
branch. The wind does not rattle it.
and the concentric coil expands as the
limb grows.
"A Tribune inquirer asks chow tc
waterproof canvas stack covers made
of unbleached muslin.' 1 have used
the following method for over ter
years, on tents, awnings and wagon
covers. which not only renders the ma
terial waterproof but mold proof as
well, and. to satisfactory extent, fire
proof: Take common rOsin soap, dis
solve in cold water to the consistency
of paint, give it good coat thoroughly
rubbed in. let dry forty-eight hours,
then soak in alum water for another
fOrty-eight hours, occasionally turning
the cloth so as to expose every part to
the action of the alum; dry. and the
article is ready This should be re-
peated at least once in two years when
used and exposed TO the weather, as an
awning usually is. Cost is trifling. Will
not rot or crack, as with paint or oil
Cor. N. Y Tribune.
--Grape-vines can be trained to
stakes as well as on trellises, and
wherever a man has room enough to
grow a currant bush he has enough for
u grapevine. OF course, you cannot
expect Z vine confined to such circum-
scribed limits to bear as much fruit al
one spread out on a trellis; still, what
it does produce will be as good as
though the vine was allowed more
room. Vines trained on stakes should
receive the same kind of treatment as
those on trellises, except that they
must be pruned more severely, and it is
well to check the growth in Summer by
pinchng off the ends of the young
shoots, from time to time, in order to
keep within prescribed limits. We
know that many of our vineyardists
assert that the American vines must
not be subjected to as close pruning as
the foreign varieties, but this is sheer
nonsense, as has been proved hundreds
of times. Christi an at HOrk.