American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-08-03
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.
INSURE your life in the Washington
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INSURE your life in the Washington to
the amount your farm is mortgaged for.
ONE should finish whatever is under
taken, else all the labor spent is lost. This
is a common cause of mans failure.
The great effort of a man should be to
keep his mind by study and daily exer-
else to its highest key of activity, so that
it may be effectively engaged at any mo-
ment. This is all-important to success
in every department of life.
THE author of "Walks and Talks" says
the practice of watering horses at the
pump or pond, as they are brought from
the field, is not to be commended. A
careful farmer may do it with impunity,
because he would not allow them to
drink too much when they are hot or
tired; but many II good horse has died
from careless watering.
IT seldom pays one to leave a business
to which he has devoted years of study,
and in which experience has been reaped,
to engage in a new business; because
each kind of business pays equally well
in the long run (for capital always tends
to an equilibrium in profits; and on going
into another business there are for com
petitorS many who have been in it
through their lifetime, and the new man
in such a case has but small chance of
success
CRYING.-Probably most persons have
experienced the effect of tears in relev-
ing great sorrow. 1t is even curious how
the feelings are allayed by their free in
diligence in groans and signs. Then let
parents and friends show more indulgence
to noisy bursts of grief-on the part of
children as well as of older persons-and
regard the eyes and the mouth as the safe
ty valves through which Nature discharg-
es her surplus steam.
THE expression often used that oils ex-
plode, conveys a wrong idea. The oil
does not explode. An oil may even eX-
tinouish a burning match when thrown
into it, and yet be highly dangerous to be
used as burning fluid. 1t is the vapor
of these oils mixed with air that is dan
gerous as far as explosion is concerned.
While a partly filed lamp has the portion
above the oil filled with mixture of va
por and air IL may explode. When a
lamp is filed while lighted, the mixture of
air and vapor IN the can or filler eXplodes
upon coming in. contact with the flame :;
the oil itself does not explode, though it
does serious injury when scattered by the
explosion.
MANY cultivators of ornamental plants
desire especially to raise those which pro-
duce fragrant Cdor, particularly for bou-
| quets, stands and flower vases. In an
swer to occasional inquiries, we name the
following sweet scented flowers, to which
| some of our readers may add others
( Sweet violet, hyacinth. heliotrOpe, pinks,
sweet-scented candytuft, woodbine, sweet
| brier, cabbage rose, tea roses, white lily,
/ sweet alyssum, mignonette, sweet pea,
carnation, sweet William, and several
| sweet-scented, perpetual roses. Here are
| enough to fill room or garden with per-
! fumes rivaling the ''odors from the spicy
shores of Araby the best" if well man
aged and cultivated country Gentleman.
! DURING the process of churning, a GER
| tam uniformity of temperature must be
| observed, or the butter will be soft and
| spongy, instead of being firm and com
pact. The agitation, also, of the cream
should be regular-neither too quick nor
too slow. If the agitation is too quick,
the butter will make and unmake itself
before the churner is aware of it, as too
rapid motion induces fermentation, which,
when it has reached a certain point, is
entirely destructive of anything like the
| possibility of making even moderately
good or well tasting butter. If, on the
other hand, the motion he too slow, the
agitators in the churn fail to produce the
desired separation of the component
parts of the cream, and the consequence
is. that after good deal of time spent in
lazy action, the churner is just as far from
his butter as he was at the beginning of
his labors. The best temperature for
the cream in churning is from fifty to
sixty degrees THdrd's Practical Daai3
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