American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-10-04
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

APPLYING verbena water to the skin is
IA protection against mosquitoes.
Do NOT throw bottles, broken glass or
nails into the street. Many horses are
wounded and spoiled by this thoughtless
ness.
The farmer who is in the habit of let
ting down the corner of his fences here
and there for passing from one field to an
other, will never have IL definite road laid
out, and never have his fences IL good
order
FURNITURE OIL.-MiX half n pint OF
olive oil with one pound of soft soap.
Boil them well, and apply the mixture to
your oiled furniture with Il piece of dry
cotton wool Polish with a soft, dry tlan-
mel.
To KEEP up the fertility of our pastures,
it is evident that we must do our best to
check the growth of such vegetation as
is rejected by stock But it is not enough
to destroy the useless and injurious plants;
we must encourage the growth OF the
valuable ones.
ONE hundred merino sheep, with plenty
of good bedding, Will, during the ordinary
feeding time in winter, produce about
forty two-horse wagon loads of manure,
which is far more valuable as Il fertilizer
than that of either horses or COWS.
"WEAR YOUR learning" said Chester
field, like your watch, ina private peck
ct, and do not pull it MI and strike it
merely to show that you have one. If you
are asked what O'Clock it is, tell it. but do
not proclaim it hourly, and unasked, like
the Waterman"
THE Chicago Medicoy Times is RESPONSE
BILE for the following method of swallow
pill without knowing it:-Put the pills
under the tongue behind the teeth, and
let the patient Immediately take a large
swallow of water, and he will neither feel
the pill nor taste it. In fact, he cannot
tell where it has gone, and have seen
them look on the floor to see if they had
not dropped it,
"OF all drcary places" says a promI-
nent writer, ''deliver me from the farm
houses which many people call home.
Bars for Il front gate, chickens wallowing
before the door, pig-pens elbowing the
house in the rear, scraggy trees, never
cared for, or no trees at all, no cheering
shrubs, no neatnesS, no trimness. And
yet a lawn and trees, and neat walk and
a pleasant fence don't cost great deal
PERHAPS no greater injury has ever
been done in horticulture than the recon-
mendation, by inexperienced writers, of
chip manure as a dressing. It's danger
arises mainly from its ready disposition
to spread fungi, which inevitably arise in
soils naturally little moist and tenacious.
When once formed, such fungi spread
with astonishing rapidity, totally prevent
ing growth, and finally killing the plants.
-HolttculturiSt.
IT'S said by good medical authority
| that bleeding ut the nose can be stopped
| by vigorous motion of the jaws, as if in
| the act of mastication. In the case of "A
| child, wad of paper should be placed in
| its mouth and the child instructed to
| chew il hard. 1t is the motion of the jaws
| that stops the flow of blood. This remedy
| is so very simple that many will feel in
| clined to laugh at it, but it has never been
| known to fail in single instance, even in
| severe cases.
THE brain of a horse seems to entertain
| but one thought at a time; for this reason
continued whipping is out of the ques-
ton, and only confirms his stubborn re
solve. But if you can by any means
| change the direction of his mind, give
| him IA new subject to think of, and nine
times out of ten you will have no further
trouble in starting him. As a simple
trick, a little pepper, aloes, or the like
| thrown back on his tongue, will often
succeed, by turning his attention to the
taste of his mouth.
| THERE is no single item in connection
| with the farmers business that attracts
more of his attention-that more eXcites
his ire, or gives him greater satisfaction
| than good or bad roads, and yet there is
no subject in which he is more persistent
" perverse and careless. Who ever heard
of two farmers agreeing upon the proper
time To repair roads, or the best means OF
doing it? Road-mending with us is, il
most instances, merely a spasmodic out
break of mIsdirected labor, applied with
out a definite object, and regardless of al
recognized laws of mechanics or nature