American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-08-06
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

DO not allow the soil about youI
Young fruit trees to become hard and
crusted, but keep it clean and constant
ly mellow.
If the cucumber which grows near
est the root be saved for seed for 4
number of years the result will be a
smaller and earlier variety. If the fruit
on the extremity be saved it will make
larger and later variety. -Fdrnley''S
Home Journal
Dreaded Eggs. hard and cut
in round thick slices; pepper and salt
and dip each in beaten raw egg, then
in fine bread crumbs or powdered
cracker crumbs and fry in butter, hiss
ing hot. Diain of every drop of grease
and serve hot.
Stove lustcr, when mixed with tur
pentine and applied in the usual man
ner. is blacker and more glossy than
when mixed with any other liquid, and
the turpentine also prevents rust. If
stoves are rubbed with kerosene when
put away in the spring they will not
rust
To make warm weather breakfast
cakes, take one cup of mOlasscs, one
cup of brown sugar, nearly one cup of
butter, or lard and butter mixed, one
four teaspoonfuls of soda, not heaping
but even full, one teaspOonful each of
cinnamon, salt and ginger. one egg;
bake in gem tins. These will keep well
for a week.
The best food for horses is hay
with corn and oats mixed. Oats alone
is the best food for road horses that are
driven good deal at rapid gait, but
for work horses at least Une-half the
grain food should be corn. When no
other grain but corn is fed it is apt to
produce heated and intlammatory con-
dition of the system which may induce
various forms of disease.
-Spiced Cabbage. Quarter a cab
bage head, put it in a kettle of hot
Wafer with little salt, boil until very
tender, take out carefully and drain,
then place CLOSELY i'll jar. Take two
quarts of vinegar, one teaspoonful each
of whole cloves and allspice, a stick of
cinnamon and one pound of sugar, boil
all together ten minutes; pour over the
cabbage while hot and cover the jar
In two days it will be fit to use.
To cure heaves give the horse no
dry, dusty food of any kind. Sprinkle
his hay and oats in winter with very
weak lime water or ordinary well
water Avoid clover hav at ali times.
and if you can raise some nice corn
fodder. sown thickly in order to have
the stalks small and tender, and then
cure it well. feed this in preference to
hay. Good, clean corn fodder is al
most specific for heaves if accom-
panied with care in working the ami
maL-N. y. SIN.
Whips. One pint of rich cream,
sugar, lemon. Rub Jumps of sugar on
the lemon to. extract the oil, then mix
with the cream. but not too sweet; put
it in shallow dish and set it ON the ice
awhile; when quite cold use the whip
syringe. or if you do not have one a
large fork will do: as fast as the froth
rises lay it on sieve to drain. Then
p ACE in the bottom of your jelly glasses
any kind of Jelly or jam, and fill the
glass with the whip. Serve with deli
cate cake.
DAINTY Sandwiches.-Chop the lean
part OF some cold boiled ham very fine.
Make a dressing by mixing the yelks of
two boiled eggs with four tablespoonfuls
of mixed mustard and four of salad oil
added gradually; put in a dash of red
pepp or and thin with little vinegar
melted butter may be used instead of oil
if preferred. Mix enough of this dress
ing with the ground ham to make it
slightly moist. Cut all the crust from
a small loaf of fresh bread and spread
the end very lightly with softened but
ter, then with the preparation of ham.
which should be soft and smooth enough
to spread evenly. Cut the slice with
sharp kni!e) as tn n as possible, roll it
up and punch the ends to keep it in
place, or, two slices, with a layer of
ham between, may be fitted neatly to
gether and afterward cut into triangles.