American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-27
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Colts hoofs should be pared occr-
sionally, or injury will result.
Ripe Tomato Pickles. -Pare ripe
tomatoes without scalding and pack
into jars pour cold spiced vinegar
over them.
Raw potatoes scraped and applied
to burns are very soothing and heal
ing. Common starch made into a
paste with cold water and applied Is
also good. This is an excellent RENE
dy for chatting in infants.
breakfast Toast.--Mix two table
spooEflils of suIar, Il little salt, and a
well egg, in half pint of milk.
Into this mixture dip slices of bread.
and fry them on u buttered griddle till
they are light brown on each sido.
Grain for eggs and soft foods for
flesh is the conclusion in respect to
profitable poultry keeping reached by
Mr. l.. Wright, the wcll-known En-
glish authority. EVERY country" he
says in the London Line Stock journal,
(which gives great attention to poul-
try for table adopts soft food"
"A grapevine that is overloaded
with fruit should be thinned "a portion
of the punches removed, half of them,
perhaps, or even more. This forces
the growth of the remainder and in
creases the size of the fruit and the
bunch All badly formed and small
punches should be clipped off, and but
one bunch left ON a bearing shoot.
Save the seeds of such things as
sweet corn, squash, tomatoes, cucum-
bers, lettuce, onions, beets, parsnips,
cabbage; you can by careful selection
obtain better seed than you can buy.
This is said with due regard to the seed
dealers and seed -raisers, and to whom
gardeners are indebted largely for new
and oftentimes choice varieties of veg
etables.
Pepper Sauce.-Take twenty-five
peppers, without the seeds, cut them
pretty fine, then take more than double
the quantity of cabbage. cut like slaw,
one root of horseradish, grated, hand
full of salt, rather more than a table,
spoonful of mustard-seed, a table,
spoonful of cloves, the same of all
spice. ground simmer sufficient
quantity of vinegar to cover it, and
pour over it, mixing it well through.
Pumpkin Pie.-Pare some pumpkin
or squash stew it with very little
water, drain it, mash it smoothly. To
one pint of mashed pumpkin add two
cups of sugar, four beaten eggs, a little
salt. the grated peel of one lemon, a
little essence of rose, one small table,
spoonful of butter, one teaspoonful of
mixed cinnamon and ginger; mix well,
then add one quart of hot milk. Bake
it in deep soup plates lined with paste,
without any upper crust. Serve hot or
cold.
Much injury has been done to fruit
culture by the expressed dread some
cuftivators have of ''too rank growth
and a consequent advice not to manure.
A fruit tree never suffers from too much
manure if the roots are healthy. If
tree seems to suffer after a heavy ma
nuring it is only that i. was in bad
way before this. OF course if one were
to empty a ccsspool, a cart load of fresh
lime or some other inordinate mass of
food under a tree it would suffer; but
our meaning is that no amount of ma
nure that would be found of benefit to
any regular garden will be otherwise
than beneficial to fruit tree if the roots
be healthy.
1t has often been thought that the
labor of securing field corn could be
lessened by drawing to the
yard adjacent to the barn, and by this
method the husking and storing the
fodder without the great waste attend
ing the handling of dry, and brittle fod-
der would be avoided. 1t is now as
serted that this can be accomplished by
Stat platform of three 4xl
inch scantlings sixteen feet in length.
The running gear of two-horse wagon
is then Invested of the rack and the
rack suspended underneath the axles,
pair of wheels at each end by means of
chains. The corn can then be either
cut with a reaper and the gavels laid
across the frame, or cut in the usual
way. A team will thus draw a ton ct
load, the saving of fodder would alone
pay the outlay while the item of husk-
ing in the mud would be entirely left
out. The field could then be sown to
rye, or some crop for green manure, or
soiling and still another gain be made.