American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-10-01
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

A COOL mixture of grass for pasture
is six pounds of timothy, twelve pounds
of orchard grass, twelve pounds of blue
grass, five pounds of yellow oat grass,
live pound of tall fescue, five pounds
OF red top and five pounds of meadow
fescue. This gives Il succession of feed,
and makes a close sod. No one single
mixture will.
Brazilian Tea-Disk. Take some
slices of bread about half an inch thick,
cut Off all crust, steep the bread in
little milk; when soaked through cover
each piece with beaten yelk of egg, and
fry with butter light brown; then
arrange the slices on a hot plate. and
lay on each piece tolerably thick COW
ing of powdered sugar and cinnamon
well mingled.
A successful Boston florist gives
the following as his method of starting
slips of rare and tender plants. I'm
derneath the usual layer of sand in
which the slips are planted, and cover
ing the bottom of the pot or box, he
places 4 layer of oats, which, when
soaked with moisture, exude 4 mucil-
agenous substance, acting as Il stImu-
liant and feeder to the tender roots OF
the slip. BY this method he seldom fails
to root his slips.
White Cakc.-Five cups of flour,
three cups of sugar. one and half cups
OF butter, one cup of milk, eleven eggs
(whites only, two teaspoOnfuls OF
cream tartar. one teaspoonful OF soda,
half glass of rosewater. Cream the
butter and sugar; beat the whites of the
eggs to froth; add little at tint.
beating well; add milk with soda dis
solved in it; then flour with the cream
tartar well mixed in it; then rosewater,
or any other lavoring you prefer.
Tomato Preserves.--Nicet tomato
preserves can be made in the following
m inner. Select smooth, ripe tomatoes,
scald and remove the skins and the
hard part near the stem. Cut cash
in each lobe, and with the thumb re.
move the seeds. Rinse well in cold
water, which will remove any stray
seeds and the slime. To every pound
of fruit thus prepared. allow half
pound of sugar, cook until clear, and
Just before taking from the fire add
lemons cut in thin slices. in the proper
ton of about one lemon to every pound
of fruit. Keep in air tight jars the
same as other fruit.
Tho RaraI NeD- Yorker expresses
ness it is to pillow should not know how
to attach chain for the purpose of COW
ering weeds. But as many do not, it
gives the following explanation of the
process: The chain is Topped around
the pillow beam at the standard. 1t is
made to trail so that it is just in advance
of the falling furrow and barely escapes
being covered. The other end is fast
ened to the double tree; or it may be
fastened to bar bolted to the beam
(near the forward end) and braced.
This, it adds, should be known by every
one who handles pillow.
-Anti-Fever Trees. blue gum
was hailed as great blessing, that was
to improve, at least. all malarious dis
tricts, and great was the disappoinu-
ment when it was found that it needed
a climate almost like the orange. 1t is
now being declared that the willow is
quite as useful for malaria districts as
the blue gum, and even more SO, and
we'll deserving the name of the Anti
Fever tree. The malarious shores of
the Levant, from which fevers and
agues were never absent, have been
rendered perfectly healthy by the ex-
tensive planting of willow trees.-Vick' .
Monthly.
AS reSaruS une WaIer-noiulnS Ca
pacity of the soil, water will be retained
and held more firmly for the use of
vegetation in fine and compact soils
than in loose, coarse ones. and the
"bottom'' water by capillarity be drawn
up higher in the finer than in the lOoser
soils; Water falling on top of fine,
not be drawn downward SO forcibly as
if the subsoil were finer and had more
capillary power; in a word, a soil thus
situated is not SO well drained rs if the
subsoil were as fine as itself. The rea-
son why such soil is dryer than one on
a tine sDbsoil is that the water held by
it soon dries out in fair weather. and
the subsOil cannot raise water fast
enough To suDply the loss