American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-09-06
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

LANDS that are overstOcked not only
yield less food, but the animals pastured
upon them make less yield in beef or
milk that when the stock is in proportion
to the capacity of lands for producing it.
IT is impossible to imagine any occu-
patton more suited to Il lady living i'll the
country than that of poultry rearing. If
she has anv superfluous affection to be
stow let it be on her chicken-kind, and it
will be returned cent per cent.
THE bad farmer, despite of a good soil
and home markets, will become bankrupt
and wretched, while the industrious and
intelligent shall triumph over every diff
Guilty and find himself in the enjoyment
of peace, prosperity and happiness.
FARMERS who have been without ice
this summer should remember that it can
be kept in a wooden shanty, if surrounded
by eight or ten inches of sawdust; and
protected by light roof and floor
through which currents of air will not
pass.
NATURE, in providing grass as the food
for domestic animals, seemed to have de-
signed ii for frequent clipping. Can we
not, therefore, make our hay of better
quality, and at the same time give greater
permanence to the crop, by cutting the
grass oftencr than we do?
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
Amertcan says that piece of brown
paper, folded two or three times and
placed between the upper lip and the
gums, will Immediately arrest bleeding at
the nose. Press the lip gently with the
finger so as to hold the paper firmly. 1t
never fails.
In selecting and purchasing fruit trees
of any description, it is of the first i'm
portance TO get the best. In no other
mercantile transaction does it pay so well
to be particular as in this. THE best"
says an experienced farmer and orchard
ist, ''are cheap at the highest price; the
remainder are dear as Il gift Though a
large farmer, he remarked that he would
be unable to pay his hired help were it
not for his orchards.
The following is cheap and simple
process for coating canvas for wagon tops,
tents, awnings, etc. 1t renders it imper-
meable to moisture, without making it
stiff and liable to break: Soft soap is to
be dissolved in hot water, and n solution
of sulphate of iron added. The sulphuric
acid combines with the potash of the
soap, and the oxide of iron is precipitated
with the fatty acid as insoluble iron soap.
This is washed and dried, and mixed
with linseed oil. The addition of dis
solved india rubber to the oil improves
the paint.
BOTs IN HORSEs.-In the Popular Sci
ence Monthly there is "a short article rela-
tive to the power of endurance manifest
ed by the larvae of some insects, and
among them of the bot fly. 1t mentions
a case where piece of the stomach of a
dead horse, which was covered with bot
worms was spread on Il board and spirits
of turpentine was poured on the worms;
vet after an hour not one was detached
from the flesh. Then whale-oil was
poured on them, when they all let go
their hold, and died almost Immediately.
Hence the inference that whale-oil should
be used TO detach the worms from the
living horse, when attacked by bots.
VALUE OF ONIoNs-The Pacific Rural
Press says: The onion deserves notice
as an article of great consumption in this
country, and it rises in importance when
we consider that in some countries, like
Spain and Portugal, it forms one of the
common and universal supports of life.
1t is interesting, therefore, to know that
in addition to the peculiar flavor which
recommends it, the onion is remarkably
nutritious. According to analysis, the
dried onion contains from twenty five to
thirty per cent of gluten; it ranks in this
respect with the nutritious pea and the
grains. 1t is not merely as relish, there
fore, that the wayfaring Spaniard eats his
onion with his humble crust of bread as
he sits by the refreshing spring; but it is
because experience has long proved that
like the cheese of the English laborer, it
helps to sustain his strength also, and
adds, beyond what its bulk would sug
gest to the amount of nOurishmcnt which
his simple meal supplies