American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-13
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Cast aside tooth brushes are good
for cleaning carved woodwork, espe :
cially ornamental bedStcads and other
furniture that has Il high polish.
What in the world can induce ag-
rlcu'tural papers to repeat nowadays
that the mole is driven on by the Rici-
nus or Castor-oil plant? The mole has
no repugnance to this plant whatever.
-R"rdk -Ne,o Yorker.
New Cabbage Stewcd. Shred the
cobbage coarscly, and parbol in fast
boiling water for five minutes; then
drain and add rich milk enough to COW
er. Cook until tender. and season with
butter rolled in flour, salt and white or
red pepper.
-Cabbage, containing as 1t does a
large per cent. of phosphoric acid,
makes one of the most valuable kinds
of food for young pigs. calves and
chickens. All young animals require 4
bountiful supply of phosphate food to
make bone. Clover is next in value to
cabbage.
Potato Pudding-Cold Boiled Pota-
toes. one half pound; butter, one-half
pound; sugar, one-half pound; eggs, six.
Mash the potatoes; cream the butter,
and mix well with the other things,
and beat all to light batter Flavor
with nutmeg, or orange or lemon peel.
Bake in pie-pans. lined with puff paste.
There is no remedy against the pea
weevil, except for every person to sow
only such seed as is free from the beetles.
If every one would destroy the beetles
found among the seed and the seed in
which beetles still remain at seeding
time there would be a great diminutioh
of the pest. AS it is, we go on pro-
pagating the weevil year afteryear.
Chopped Pickle.-One peck of
green tomatoes, two quarts of onions
and two of peppers. Chop fine sepa-.
rately and mix, adding three cupfuls of
salt. Let them stand over night, and
in the morning drain well. Add half
a pound of mustard seed, two table
spoonfuls ground allspice, two of
ground cloves and one cupful of grated
horse-radish. Pour over it three quarts
of boiling vinegar.
There is much refuse fat from the
kitchen that can be turned to good ac-
count by feeding it to the hens. Of
course where soap is made it will be
used up in that way, but it is question
whether it is not much easier and more
profitable to buy soap and make hens
lay by feeding them with fat Every
thing that is not wanted for drippings
for cooking purposes should be boiled
up with the vegetables for the fowls.
Fish Pie.-Pie crust; bacon; cod
fish, fresh; one onion; pepper and salt.
Make pie crust of suet, -four and warm
water, put it round the baking dish.
place at the bottom few pieces of
bacon, then the Goldfish; sprinkle over
ner and a l;ttIn fn,r tow nieces
cover with crust and b,ke in . on;ct
oven Snrve viii ho;Iad narsnins tnr.
nips. and baked notatoes.
LRowdoi, p,dd;nr -,fix mn o,ort
of Indian meal with four o,,,,ces of Int
ter or finely minced beef suet and four
ounces of hro,vn sur,,. ~. onn n;,t nj
molasses add txn seasnnonfiis ~ nov
1lered c;,n.n,o,, .nd ono lint "a Lii.
add two anns we'll hnatob tbon nn,,r
over tho wbole throo n;nts Of hoii;ma
milf Stir fo,v ,,;nrtos ,hon ,o,r s
into a nndd;n-, non and hola IL forr ~,
five borrs l., pp,odarato nror E,.rv
bour nonr a l;t,ie cold min IN tho ton
of tbe budding tn nrevent ito hecon,;np
tongb .
kat
~ ne Dess peer Is young oeel' aeacn.
frs,, ~ ~, a. ,hup poAn. VI suRIi,ol.y az
trUa ~ ~ s !" o,io1 o" ;r he SAM sa.tr Is
ta go III " h snoep auu s Sh,, Me'ner'
, ~, .no pes1 hu''on' shouiu pe III ,li"r-
Me- as Iwo years. AS general RUE
TWO nunureo ana MY pound Pig Is
niIcn petler IN duailty ana more Pront,
ao,e .han I hoS Una. weighs n.e nundrea
p ,';n,'is" n ne poni' y. app.ec;s'''pn VI
4uicsiy maturing ahiiitis Is peinS