American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-03-16
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.


THE policies of the Washington are
liberal AS to travel.
The more blanket, the less provender.
Animal heat is kept up by covering or
fuel:
Cocoa NIT BREAD PUDpiNG.-Bol one
quart of milk in tea-kett1e bi.iler. When
hot, add teacup of grated cocoa nut,
and boil two hours. Add Il cup of bread
crumbs, two eggs, well beaten, and half
a cup of sugar. Boil one hour. Eat it
cold. Currants or raisins may be added.
- Western Rtrui.
IL Switzerland they give salt to cattle
in the form of little blocks; composed of
nine tenths salt and ohe-tenth p6tter's
clay These bricks are plated in boxes
;.t the foot of the Manager and within easy
reach of the animal, which will take what
instinct prompts, and no more. Some
use them III the pastuse in the same man.
her. when the animals will lick them at
their pleasure.
ANOTHER remedy for cholera appears.
Although this is not the prevailing dis
eaec iusi now, next summer may bring It,
and our readers might as well paste this
recipe in their scrap books 1t is very
simple: "a tablespHonful If salt ind q IT,
6iespoonful of red pepper in half pint OF
hot water" The medicine acts quickly as an
ressfully used WHEN ths ertinaty t.,eth-
obs OF treatment have proved unavailing
FROM experiments prosecuted by DR.
Jeannel it would appear that food, both
animal and vegetable, cooked at 200 deg
T. Is more nutritious and of hetter ta~ot
than that boiled at gig deg. F., the usual
boiling point of water at the level of the
sea- The experience of cooking at diff
fcrcnt P,titudes ~, elevated t,ot,nta'bs hor-
foborates this indication, as does also the
working of the so-called Norwegian cook
ing apparatus.
A FRENCH agriculturist reports that,
after trying every method knewn for the
destruction of ants inIesiing some OF Ills
fruit trees, he succeeded in effecting his
purpose in the most complete manner, by
placing mixture of arsenic and sweet
ened water. in a saucer, at the foot of the
trees For The larAer speciHs, he made
use of honey, instead OF sugar and
found, in few days, he could eXtermi-
nate them completely:
WA+Sff CLEAN1Nu-A CORRESPONDENT
of the Scientific american says: " To
clean watch, even if it be of the lowest
grade, the barrel or handspring box
should always be taken apart, the arbor
and spring taken out and cleaned, fresh
oil being applied before the cover is re.
placed. Thst there Is nothing better than
naptha for cleaning purposes, Is The opin-
ion of most watchmakers. If the watch
has fusee, that also should undergo the
same treatment as the handspring box.
The pivcts also form an important part OF
the mechanism of a watch and, to he eX
amined as they always should be. ,necessi
tates the act of taking the watch apart
Such attention no honest practitioners
will overlook"
OM-CAKEs-Ther refuse after pressing
the oil from cotton-seed or linseed re.
mains in large, square cakes, which are
broken up and ground into meal. The
cake from cOttOn-seed, from which the
hull has been removed, is the most valua
per cent. of flesh-forming matter or al
luminous compounds. Two hundred
pounds of this meal steamed with q ton
of wheat straw is considered by eminent
English feeders as equal to a ton of good
hay. Taking the meal at two cents pei
pound and hay at twenty dollars per ton
the straw, by this process, obtains value
of sixteen dollars, which is far beyond
its value in any other shape.-HearM ana
Home.
SMALf HoRsEs.-The Southern Farme,
says: The arguments may all be in favor
of great size, but the facts are all the
Otner way. Large norseS are more liaDlt
to stumble and he lame, than those of the
middle sire. They are clumsy, and can
not fill themselves SO quick There is
nothing more surprising to Western tner
than to visit Montreal, and to see the
small, but stout, Canadian horses, haul
ing large. two-seated carriages, full OF
people, with apparent ease. A horse
weighing 300, in Maine, takes chaise OF
Concord wagon, with two men In it, and
makes fifty or sixty miles in day, ovel
hills that might have terrified Hannibal
But their weight is where it ought to be
1t is compact, and not lying around loose
1t is muscle, and not pulp, that we want
in horse.