American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-06-29
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

| IoLlClES DCcOUlC Stll-S III lHc
| Washington Life Insurance Company, of
New York.
| GERANIUM leaves are often made spot
| ted by the rays of the sun striking on
them when wet. This occurs indoors,
where air enough is not present to evap
crate the moisture before the suns power
is felt.
| A LARGER proportion of white flowers
| are fragrant than those of any other
color; yellow comes next, then red, and
lastly blue; after which, and in the same
order, may be reckoned violet, green,
orange, brown and black.
| For your own, as well as your chill
dren's sake, learn to speak low. They
| will remember that tone when your head
is under the willows. So, too, will they
| remember a harsh and angry tone.
| Which legacy will you leave to your chill
dren?
| CLOvERS FOR CHECKING PRAIRIE
FIREs.-A correspondent of the Farmers
Cnton recommends sowing Alsike and
white clover III belts, for the purpose of
checking prairie fires. He says two
pounds of seed will surround quarter
| section with a great carpet that is as
good as water, and then it will spread
both ways, and SO increase the security.
CONDITION POWDER FOR HoRsEs.-The
|
horses should twice a week throw in a
handful of salt and ashes. Mix them by
putting in three parts of salt to one of
ashes. Hoses relish this, and it will
keep their hair soft and fine. 1t will pre-
vent bots, collie, etc A little ground sui
phur mixed with salt and ashes, and given
once in two or three weeks is also benet
cial. All domestic animals will be thus
benefited.
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| should be vaccinated not earlier than a
month after its birth; if it takes well, an
other careful vaccination at about four
| teen will ordinarily be a lifelong protec-
ton. At a smallpox hospital in En-
| gland, it is the invariable custom'to revac-
cinate every nurse who enters the estab-
lishment to take care of the sick, and in
thirty-four years there has not been sin
! gle case of a nurse having taken small
pox. The older persons get after vaccina-
ton, the less likely are they to have any
form of the disease.
A SERIES of experiments, instituted
to test the average loss in weight by dry
| ing, shows that corn loses one-fifth, and
wheat one-fourteenth by the process.
From this the statement is made that
farmers will make more by selling I'M
shelled corn in the fall at seventy-five
cents than the following summer at one
| Il DuSuCl anu lutt w Hcdt dL l-O-
in December is equal to $3.50 for the same
wheat in the June following This esti-
mate is made on the basis of interest at
seven per cent, and takes no account of
loss from the depredations of vermin.
| These facts are worthy of consideration.
COLD AND GERMINATIoN.-M.D uclaux,
| of France, is engaged in a series of ex-
periments to demonstrate that cold is in
dispensable to termination. He placed
two portions of seed in an ice-house for
one and two months respectively; third
portion was deposited in an apartment
moderately heated. Cold is known to be
essential to the Matching of the silk
worms eggs. Well, the three lots were
placed in circumstances favorable to ger
mination; the third lot showed no signs
of life the others sprouted the seeds
enclosed for two months in the ice-house
without an exception; those for one
month, but imperfectly.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Carolina
Farmer says that he would not be careful
to select for peach orchard northern,
southern, eastern, or western exposure in
particular, but would prefer to plant, if
possible, on opposite ground at the same
time. For example One of his neigh
bors owned a high hill which sloped
north and south. He had peach orchards
on both sides of the hill. He has seen
| the orchard on the north side Durdened
with fruit, while on the south side the
frost had completely destroyed the crop
and rice cefsa. The same may be seen on
eastern or western exposures
How TO BUILD BRICK CHIMNEY-ToPs.-
All the brick-work above the superstruc,
ture, whatever the material of the build
ing, should be made with cement mortar,
which absorbs less moisture than that
made of caustic lime and sand. The
bricks for a chimney-top should be soaked
in water for a few minutes, so that they
will not extract the water from the NOR
tar. In order to have mortar become very
hard, it must dry slowly. By laying wet
bricks, the mortar will set slowly, dry
slowly, and eventually become almost as
hard as the bricks. Every brick chimney
should be covered at the top with a cope
stone, and arched top, or bricks placed
over the flues, like the rafter of a build
ing, for the purpose of turning off the
water which would go down the inside,
be absorbed by the bricks, and perhaps
soak through and wet the paper or calci
mining on the inside. A chimney-tor
made as above will stand the influences OF
the weather over a hundred years without
repairs. -Indust,ial Monthly.