American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-07-06
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


No NOTES are deducted from the poll
cies at maturity in the Washington.
HELP others when you can, but never
give what you cannot Afford to, simply
| because it is fashionable.
ACCORDING to an chronological au-
thority, spiders, without exception, prey
largely upon insects, and chiefly upon the
plant feeding or injurious insects.
IMPROPER and irregular feeding, over
work in hot sun, going too long with
out water, and then giving too much, are
among the causes of bad digestion and
general i'll health in horses.
A NEW green has been discovered which
is said to be brilliant enough to replace
the poisonous color produced by arsenic.
1t Is composed of twenty parts of oxide
of zinc and one of sulphate of cobalt,
mixed into a paste with water, and cN-
posed to n red heat.
A NEW method for preserving the leaves
and tops of beet roots has recently been
devised in France, by means of very di-
lutte hydro chloric acid. The prepared
nutriment is said to be very palatable to
cattle, and furnishes cheap and valuable
food. In view of the growing Importance
of beet culture in this country, the discov-
cry is of home Importance.
\ WRITER in an Eastern paper says
| that the evergreens are not killed, the
foliage, the leaves only, are hurt, and, as
they fall, a new growth appears, and the
trees attain their former beauty and vigor.
He advises those who have evergreen
trees or hedges, to cut them back one
third, pruning well the side limbs.
SIXTEEN quarts of pure milk are re-
quired to make one pound of butter,
and ten quarts make one pound of cheese
When butter is forty cents pound and
cheese eleven cents, one pound of butter
equals in value sixteen quarts of milk,
and returns two and one-half cents per
quart to the dairyman. But one pound
of cheese from ten quarts of milk only
gives him one and one-eleventh cents per
pound for the milk.-Ohio Farmer.
SCRAMBLED EGGs-Melt tablespoon
full of butter in a saucepan; beat the
yolks of six eggs few minutes; then
add to them six tablespoonful of milk
and a teaspoonful of salt, beat Il little
longer, and pour them into the melted but
ter. When they thicken slightly, pour in
the whites unbeaten, and mix them with
the yolks, carefully with a fork, and serve
on pieces of toast in a hot dish, or if pre-
ferred omit the bread The whites should
not be beaten in hard. only stirred with
the fork enough to mix slightly with the
rest-CNristidn Union.
PUMPKINS, as JOOu LOT STOCK, ma favor
with a correspondent of the Maine Farmer.
Last year he took twenty oX-cart loads
from an acre of land, which also yielded
at the same time crop of corn. He fed
his sheep upon them for two months, and
thus materially helped to fatten forty,
which he sold in the fall for mutton, and
forty more which went into winter
quarters. Given to cattle, they saved a
''vast amount of feed" What pumpkins
were left were cut up, placed IN the dry
house, and afterward soaked in milk for
the swine.
THE man who has begun to live and work
by artificial stimulant never knows where
he stands, and can never count upon himself
with any certainty. He gets into his cas-
tie servant who becomes the most tyran-
nical of masters. He may resolve to turn
him out, but will find himself reduced to
the condition in which he can neither do
with or without him. The use of stimu-
liant to the brain power brings on a dis
ease, in whose paroxysms a man is no
more his own master than in the rawlings
of a fever, a disease that few have the
knowledge to understand, and for whose
manifestations the world has no pity
Mrs .StOlre