American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-12
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

If flowers do not mature well, they
may be made to do so by placing half an
inch of powdered charcoal on the earth in
the pot. Another authority asserts that a
solution or suspension of white hellebore
in water may be used with great advan-
tage in destroying the insects that infest
so many Towering plants. A fair friend
has tried the experiment with success,
and reports that if the bugs sneezed as
she did, it was no wonder that they lost
their lives.
SWEET APPLIES AS FoOD.-NO orchard
should be planted without good sprink-
ling of sweet apples. They are excellent for
baking, and cut up in milk make the chill
dren grow like weeds, and children of a
larger growth can make a meal of them
served up in this way, and few such arti-
Giles of diet will give more healthy color
to the cheek. Well saturated with cream
and sugar they are no mean substitute for
peaches. Apples, both sweet and sour,
should be largely used as an article of
diet. The sweet ones are the more nutri-
tious.-Rural Carolinian.
AN intelligent and thrifty farmer says ::
But for the cooperation of my boys
should have failed. The eldest is near q,
and the other boys in the neighbOrhOod,
younger, have left their parents mine
have stuck to me when l most needed
their services. attribute this result to the
fact that have tried to make their home
pleasant. have furnished them with at
tractive and useful reading, and when
night comes, and the days work is ended,
instead of running with other boys to the
railroad station and adjoining towns, they
gathered around the great lamp and be-
came interested in their books and papers.
In very warm weather, when it is diff
cult to preserve milk from becoming sour
and spelling the cream, it may be kept
perfectly sweet by scalding the new milk
very g .ntly without boiling, and putting
it away in the arthern pan or dish In
which it has been scalded. This method
is adopted in all the large diaries in Eng
land, and particularly in Devonshire.
Cream already skinned may be kept quite
sweet for twenty-fOur hours if scalded,
but if as much powdered Leaf sugar be
added as will sweeten it, and then scalded,
it will keep in cool place for two days.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune says: 81 will give two plans, one
in the state owing to the condition it is in
at the time the treatment is applied !; the
other is applicable when the cider has fer
mented. According to plan No. l, one
fourth of an ounce per gallon of sulphate
of lime should be added soon after the
cider runs from the press. This can best
be done by adding the sulphate of lime to
and after stirring well pour into the bar
rel. Ten ounces of this lime will be the
proper quantity for an ordinary barrel.
The cider will keep in the condition it
was at the time when the lime was added.
This plan will work equally well if the
cider be partially or wholly fermented
when the lime is put in. 1t does not ap-
pear to be absolutely necessary to rack of
the cider unless it is to be transported; in
that case it should be racked off in about
ten days after application of the remedy"
AIR AND ExERCIsE.-That we Ameri-
cans do not take air and exercise enough
is an admitted fact and it stares US in
the face in the shape of pale, debilitated
men of forty, and sallow, hollow-cheeked
passee women of thirty. There is lack
of muscle in the men and of bloom in the
women. The climate is trying one, to
be sure, but that very fact should only slim
ulate us to fight with and overcome, not
to fly from it, and seek refuge from it in
interior atmospheres fifty times more
fatal. Have we reason to fear cOnsump-
ton, that great insidious foe of New En-
gland-straightway we house ourselves,
muffle ourselves, heat ourselves, and deny
the simplest breath of air access to our
lungs. We drug our bodies with costly
les which nature has provided bountifully
and without cost. One-half Of us are fad
ed dollhouse flowers; the rest a race of
unfortunate overwOrked bipeds. Out-of-
door exercise is a grand essential to
health