American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-04-30
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

Cookies and ginger-snaps are much
more easily rolled and stamped the day
after they are mixed.
To keep hens from scratching up
flower beds, stick sticks all through the
bed five or six inches apart and six
inches high. The sticks prevent their
going through the motions"
A couple of ounces of carbolic acid
to three quarts of water sprinkied on
the poultry house through the fine rose
of small watering-pot once in three
or four weeks will destroy lice and
other parasites.
Seeds of weeds have been kept for
fifty to sixty DAYS under manure-water
without losing their terminating power,
and it is probable that they would re-
tain their vitality even longer in the
manure pile-which shows the import
ance of excluding them from the COM
post.
Milk Rolls.-One pound flour, one
of butter, one of sugar, good pinch of
salt, one full teaspoonful of baking
powder, one pint of new milk; place the
flour in a pan and add salt and butter;
mix well with the fingers, then add half
Of the sugar, the baking powder, and
lastly the milk (this makes the dough
very dry). Turn out of the pan and
knead lightly together; cut the whole
into six or eight pieces, draw each into
n long shape making two cuts on top,
place these in well Toured tins and bake
in a quick oven fifteen minutes. When
done take them out of the oven, brush
over n little egg, sprinkle with sugar and
brown.
Saws the PhrcnOlo9ical Journal:
g Four boxes of earth, alike in quantity
and exposure to light and heat. were
planted at the same time with corn from
a single ear. and placed recently in
physicians office. In one box dry corn
was planted; in another, seed previous
ly soaked in clean, warm water; in the
third, seed had been soaked in solu-
ton of lime water; in the fourth, seed
soaked in chloride of lime and copperas
water, equal parts. One week after,
the dry corn had not terminated; the
corn in the second box had just COM
menced to sprout: that in the third box
was just showing the green blades. and
that in the fourth box had grown near
ly three inches high. Copperas water
will prevent birds and worms from eat
ing the seed, and one pound of dry cop
peras will soak enough for twenty acres.
To make Spanish cream to serve
with cakes. follow this rule: Put half a
box of gelatine to soak in a goblet of
cold water, heat one pint and half of
sweet milk; when it comes to the boil
ing point pour in the gelatine, stirring all
the time until it is entirely dissolved.
Beat the yelks of three eggs and one
cup of sugar, and pour slowly into the
milk and let it scald until it begins to
curdle. Then add the whites of three
eggs beaten to 4 stiff froth. stir them in
as quickly as possible, and the favoring
now also--vanilla preferred; pour into
the mold Immediately. This is a very
delicate and pleasing dish for tea. An
other and simpler dish is made by TAX
ing fresh, sweet cream, heating it to a
stiff frost; add pulverized sugar and any
fiavoring extract you choose. When
served in wineglasses it makes pretty
addition to any meal. Z
Whenever a tree is transplanted,
many of the roots are injured-a part
destroyed Those that remain when
set out in a new place arc in no condi-
ton to feed the plant as it was fed pre-
vious to removal. Hence the top must
be cut back to restore the equilibrium.
Let us instance the case of a newly
transplanted grapevine. If many buds
are permitted to push and grow, the
growth of each at the end of the season
will be found to be of feeble, imma-
ture kind. IF, on the other hand, but
one bud be permitted to grow, strong,
healthy cane will be the result. Thus
we see in the former case the sap is dis
tributed among many buds and shoots,
while in the latter it is supplied to one.
The tree or plant of any kind may live
in either case. While, however, cutting
back renders the chances of life greater
and insures more vigor, we have still
to consider whether n few strong shoots
are not more desirable than many feeble
ones.-Rural NeD Yorker.