American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-09
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

| If rats or mice infest any part .
your house find their holes and stul
them with rags dipped in a strong solu
ton of cayenne pepper No rodeD
will ever take second nibble at tina
rag
Bread Cakes. Take one quart o
milk, stir in enough bread crumbs t.
make a thin batter. Beat three egg
well and put them in, adding q little
salt; and two tablespoonfuls of flour
Bake on the griddle and serve hot.
AS soon as he has his poultry house:
cleaned, Mr.. Kern tells the Ohio Far
nier, he takes the manure and spread:
it over his wheat field, or a poor spot il
his meadow, and you can take his worG
that man with one eye can see where
he puts it. To put hen manure in a boz
or barrel and keep it one year before il
is put to crop he thinks is a wrong
way.
Some crops are what is known as
coarse tecders, and thrive on fresh ma
nure, and some require the manure tC
be well rooted and reduced to its min
eral elements in great part. For in
stance. wheat. barley, peas and pota-
toes and beets require the manure to be
decomposed, while corn, cabbage and
oats will do better on fresh manure.
To remove iron rust stains from
linen and cotton garments use oXalio
acid. Get ten cents worth of the acid
crystals, and dissolve in a quart of wa
ter. Heat until the solution boils, ther
dip the rust spots, and Immediately
wash out in warm water or soap and
water. If the acid is not washed out il
will destroy the cloth. The acid solu
ton may be cooled and put into bottle
for future use.
Green Pea Soup Boil pint OF
green peas in water with salt head OF
lettuce, an onion, a carrot, few leaves
of mint, and a sprig of parsley, some
pepper and salt to taste, and a lump OF
sugar. When thoroughly done, strain
OF the liquor and pass the peas, etc,
through a hair sieve; add as much OF
the liquor as will bring it to the right
consistency; put the soup in a saucepan
with a small pat of fresh batter; let it
boil up, and serve with dice-shaped
bread fried in butter.
Blackberry Jelly.-Put the fruit in
stone jar; set the jar in pot of cold
water; put n few small sticks on the
bottom of the pot to keep the jar from
breaking. When the water boils
TIC lue Is SOlG Gik6
it out and squeeze out the juice by put
ting the berries in bag. To each pint
of juice put one pound sugar; put it in
a skillet, and when it comes to boil
watch it that it does not burn. Let it
boil until it jellies. 1t takes about
twenty minutes.
"A prominent symptom of Tiavicular
disease in horses is the stretching for
ward of the foot and resting it on the
toe. When this is seen it may be con
sidered that the navicular bone of the |
foot (the so-called coffin bone) is dis |
eased. The treatment is to remove the |
shoes and let the horse stand with the |
lore feet in puddle of clay. Wrap a |
warm poultice about the coronet and |
upper part of the hoof and give the |
horse twelve ounces of epson salts and |
'epeat it the third day. Rest is neces-
y Times.
"A correspondent of the Rural Mes
snger has had good results from the
application of lime. wood ashes and old
ron put around the roots of fruit trees
hat were not doing well, thus restoring
he trees to a he1lthy condition and
the quality of the fruit. As
|. wash for messy trees. he gives the fol-
owing: Heat an ounce of sal soda to
edness in an iron pot and dissolve it in
me gallon of wafer, and while warm
pply it to the trunk. After one appli-
alton the moss and old bark will drop
II and the trunk will be quite smooth.
Mothers Crullers. eggs,
We tablespoonfuls of sugar. four
of melted butter,
r part lard. Mix very hard
nth -four, and roll out nearly rs
hin as pie-crust. Cut in oblong pieces
with a wheel such as is used in orna-
renting pie crusD, about two and a
alf by six inches. then cut in strands
three or four and, braid quite loosely,
ot separating the strands at one end.
ry in hot lard, the same as doughnuts.
liking care especially to have them
ght brown. To have them look well
considered of equal importance with
aving them taste well.
Horses hoofs are subject to |
mixer or Inflammation of the interior ,
the sole in consequence of standing
| manure or other causes. The in
thus produced may some {
mes extend to the tendons and cause
yelling of the lower limbs and stiff
eSs which may seem like rheumatism.
o treat case of this kind the feet j..
lould be washed with a solution of l
lie dram of chloride OF zinc in q quart
water. This should be injected into
e cracks of the hoofs as far as posi-
e. and all the foul smelling discharge
moved. 1t is quite possible that the
ouble may be produced by liberated
og, in which case all the ragged horn !
ould be cut off and pared away. tho
nc solution to be freely applied. .
i've brisk dose of salts and repeat it /,
a few days.-M J. Times.