American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-04-06
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

MANY good man leaveth an inherit
ance in the Washington Life Insurance
Company, of New York.
CoLD CUsTARp.-Warm one quart of
milk az warm as when Just MIXED;
swecten and flavor to suit your taste; stir
into it two tablespoonfuls of rcnnet wine,
and turn it at once into the dish in which
it is to be served; set in a cool place and
let stand one hour. 1t is excellent, eaten
with sugar and cream, and very conven-
lent when you need dessert prepared in
haSte
CUTTING AND BoTTLJSG CRATES WHEN
RIPE.--An English gardener announces
his purpose to cut his cold grapery
grapes, hereafter, when ripe Gn October
or later, leaving about eight inches of
stem attached to each bunch; carry them
to dry room where are number of bot
ties filled with water, in which is little
charcoal, and in this water insert the
stems attached to the punches. BY this
means he expects to keep Muscats until
March. He proposes to keep them upon
a shelf in a dry room.
Hoe troughs are so often the scene of
terrific quarrels at feeding time that any
device to secure Justice for the weak and
prevent aggression or the part of the
strong will be welcomed alike by pigs and
farmers. The -4gricultu5ia suggests that
cross bars be let into the edges of the
trough and fastened with nails. The ami
mails will then be prevented from rushing
at one another while feeding, and the ne
cessity of raising their heads in order to
make an attack will soon teach them that
the satisfaction derived from every such
attack is more than balanced by direct
loss of time which night have been de-
voted to eating.
THE CaHdda Farmer gives the following
suggestions in regard to weaving lambs:
"When separated from the ewes, lambs
should be placed in field as distant as
possible from them, so as to be out of
reach of their beating, and they Will be-
come contented and thriving. The pas
ture to which the lambs are put ought to
be somewhat better than that to which
they have been accustomed, vet not too
luXuriant, and if the ewes and lambs can
be turned into it together for week, and
then taken away, the lambs will not fret
so much as would be the case were they
removed to field that is strange to
them"
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Rurdl Neac
Yorker gives the following cure for frost
ed feet, and for ringworms: Take of car
bolic acid QiquidD, one part; oil of any
kind, two parts; apply evening and
morning few times; shake it up when
you use it. 1t is good for burns, will
keep out erysipelas, proud flesh and gan
creme from old sores, and to relieve neu-
ralgia pains in the face, it is extra. Per
haps little more of the acid should be
added for neuralgia, so as to make it a
little pungent; but the clear acid will
blister. Try it, try it. In two instances
l have known ringworms cured that COW
cred much of the neck and one side of
the face.
PREPARING LAND FOR STRAWBERRIES.
A correspondent requests us to tell him
how to prepare land for strawberry plants.
We have read volumes on this subject,
and prepared good many acres with our
own hands, therefore feel qualified to give
the required information in a very few
words: Make the soil deep, rich, and
pulverize it thoroughly. This is all that
the most successful grower in the coun-
try ever attempted or accomplished.
When the soil is put into such state
man may plant strawberries with pretty
good expectation of obtaining a strong,
vigorous growth, provided he obtains
sorts adapted to his locality. Whether
he ever gets any fruit will depend some
what upon the variety planted and the
method of culture adopted. But the
groundwork and foundation of success is
in putting the land into the condition we
have observation-disclosures ep Yorker.
SUGAR BETS FOR FATTENING SWINE.
Jonathan Talcott gives statement in
the Boston Cultirotor of an experiment
performed on Suffolk pig, where sugar
beets were largely employed for fatten-
ing. The animal was about year old,
and the feeding on boiled sugar beets,
tops and roots, began on the 10th of Au-
gust, and was continued three times a day
until the list of October, after which
ground feed was given, consisting of two
parts of corn and one of oats, three times
a day till the animal was slaughtered, the
meal being mixed with cold water The
result was, on the 10th of August, when
the sugar beet feeding was begun, that
the weight was 800 pounds; September
1st, 800 pounds October 1st, $50 pounds;
November 1st, SEQ pounds. This is the
substance of the statement given, by
which we perceive the increase the last of
August, when fed on boiled sugar beets,
was at the rate of two pounds per day;
the same rate of increase on the same
food continued through September. When
fed on ground corn and oats, made into
cold slop, the gain for the next fifty days
was less than pound and a half per day.