American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1881-07-23
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
Sage is a delicious addition TO sou

Sage is delicious addition TO soups
use it in place of rice or bar'ey.
The only effective remedy against
worms, slugs and the rose aphis or green
fly is 4 solution of whale-OiI soap syr-
inged over the rose bushes.
The New York HernM says: "Stone
cherries and put sugar on them, allow
ing them to remain over ght- In the
morning they will have a delicious fla
vor"
When the paint gets off the rims
of the best wagon wheels they lose
moisture and shrink very fast in dry
weather. The quickest preventive is a
mixture of petroleum and linseed oil
applied to the felloes with a brush,
several times over, where they are dry.
Take new flower pot, wash it
clean, wrap in a wet cloth and set over
butter; it will keep it as hard as if on
ice. Milk, if put into an earthen can.
or even tin one, will also keep sweet
for a long time if well wrapped in a wet
cloth.
The best preventive of collie in
mules is to feed the animal good, rich
and easily digested food. If you give
mules or horses whole dry corn and
then water them soon afterward, the
corn swells in tho stomach and pro-
duces collie. Dry hard food of any kind
or overlooking the stomach with green.
succulent food will usually produce
collie.
: "A correspondent of the New York
World says: Everybody knows that
alum is good for canker sores in the mouth
and on the tongue, but perhaps every
one does not know that it will also do
much toward preventing pimples on the
face. The right way to use it for the
latter annoying trouble is to rub piece
of alum over the face every time it is
bathed and while the skin is wet
The most profitable method of
rearing cattle is to give them all the
food they can digest well from their
birth up to the day of their slaughter, II
reared for bullocks. But if for making
oxen and bulls and cows for breeding.
then feed no more than to keep then, in
prime working and breeding condition.
An OK may be too fat or too poor for
good work and SO may bull to get
first-rate offspring or a cow to do well
in the dairy or as breeder.
Mullins. Make sponge of one
quart of flour, half pint of arm wa
ter and half a pint of milk, half tea
spoonful of salt. and yeast enough to
tighten it. Add a tablespoonful of
melted butter and one of sugar. When
ready to cook drop spOOnfuls of it into
little hot lard melted in saucepan or
on a griddle-iron. Brown on one side,
and turn over and brown on the other
side, and serve piping hot.
Luncheon Cake. Take one and a
half pounds of dough, one-half pound
currants, one half ounce caraway seeds,
six ounces sugar, two or three eggs and
one-half pound clarified drippings of
butter. Spread out the dough on the
pasteboard, roll it well out. rub in the
currants and sugar, then add the drip
ping or butter, and lastly the eggs.
Mix all well together, leave it to rise,
put it into tins and bake about an hour
in a moderate oven.
To avoid sun stroke, says DR.. Mann,
in excessively hot weather, exercise
should be very moderate; the clothing
should be thin and loose, and an abun-
dance of cold water should be drank.
Workmen should understand that as
soon as they cease to perspire, while
working or marching in the hot sun,
they are in danger of sun-stroke, and
they should Immediately drink water
freely and cop!ously to afford matter
for cutaneous Transportation, and also
keep the skin and clothillg wet with
water. Impending sun stroke may
often be warded off by these simple
measures. Straw hats should be worn,
ventilated at the top. and the crown of
the hat filled with green leaves or wet
sponge. 1t is better to wear thin fan
mel shirts, in Older not to check per-
SEPARATION.
Remedy for the Small Red Ant
Dissolve half an ounce OF pulverized cor
rosive sublimate in one pint of boiling
water. and when cool, bot lie. and keep
for use, remembering to label it Poison.
Your other correspondent directed to
apply it with feather to the edges of
closet shelves. This will do if repeated
frequently, but has the disadvantage of
leaving an indelible black mark if soap
is ever used afterwards ON the shelves.
l have found it better to cut muslin
covers the size of the shelf and thorough
ly saturate the edges about half an inch
deep, dry them, and then cover the
shelves. These covers can be shaken
to remove crumbs or dust, and, unless
they become so soiled as to need wash
ing, one application of the poison to
their edges, will generally be- sufficient
for a whole season. For tables, safes,
etc, which can stand apart from the
walls. narrow strips of muslin, which
have been saturated and then dried.
around each leg, will be found
an effectual barrier. BY using strips
of colored muslin or cambria the same
shade as the furniture they will not be
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