American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-03-29
USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE.

! RIFE cheese may be known by its hav-
ing lost its elasticity under pressure of
the finger; ii keeps soft after cutting
not drying up readily-and melts in the
mouth like ripe pear.
| REMEDY FOR COLD FEET-Soak the
| feet in warm water with little CAYENNE
pepper in it two or three times a week.
| Try this for month, or longer if neses-
sary, and you will find it an excellent
remedy for cold feet.
To PREVENT the teeth from decaying,
brush them with lime water. Even if
| they are far gone, it will cause them to
decay with little or no pain. Saturate
the brush well, and use with tooth
powder.
AT a discussion upon the most profit
able disposition of straw, by an English
| farmers club, recently, the preponder
ance of opinion was in favor Of treading
down into manure by sheep fed ON clover
and turnips.
| REMOVING TAR SPoTs.--The old rem
| edy for removing tar is butter; tar is
soluble in fat, and especially in butter;
| when this is left on the tar spots for some
| time, both butter and tar are easily wash
ed out by sponge, with soap and water.
| 1t is the same with resinous wagon grease.
Recently DIR. Brikerd announced that he
had discovered that a creamy mixture of
powdered extract of liquorice, with oil
of anise seed, will easily dissolve tar, resin,
pitch, Venice turpentine, etc. 1t is after
ward washed out with soap and warm
water.
BEEF TEA-A writer in the Canada
Lancet gives a new process for making
beef tea, as follows: Take a thin rump
of steak of beef, lay it upon board,
and with a caseknife scrape it. In this
II I~a ,INSa ,A f,l,
contains pretty much everything in the
steak, except the fibrous tissue. Mix this
red pulp thoroughly with three times its
bulk of cold water, stirring until the pulp
is completely ditfused. Put the whole
upon moderate fire and allow it o'oome
alowly to a boil, stirring all the time to
prevent the 'caking' of the pulp. In u.s.
ing this, do not allow it to be strained,
but stir the settings thoroughly into the
fluid. One 10 three fluid ounces of this
may be given at a time"
CHEAP POTTERY YARD.-Set posts
firmly in the ground, six feet high, eight
feet apart. Take No. wire and stretch
from post to post outside, fastening with
staples made of wire driven into posts.
Place three wires one inch apart, one foot
from the ground; another three at three
feet ten inches from the ground; another
three at top of posts. Take common
ldtliS iIltl NcdNC lCiNluS tHicC iuCHcs
space between sides of each. This makes
the fence four feet high. Then take
other laths, picket one end, and chamfer
the other like chisel blade, and inter
weave among the top wires; then shove
the chamfered edge down beside the top
of the bottom la,h, tapping under wires
two inches. This makes a cheap, dur
able, pretty fence, that is seven feet and
ten inches high, and fowltight. Wires
should be left some what slack, as inter-
weaving the laths viii take it up. W.
Lang IN the Poultry World.
How MUCH WILL KEEP A HoRsE.-A
horse weighing from ten to twelve hun
bred pounds will est about six tons of
hay, or its equivalent, in Il year; and we
suppose the real point to get at is, wheth-
er one can keep his horse cheaper on
some other product than hay. This is an
exceedingly difficult question to answer
it depends so much on circumstances.
We shall not attempt to answer it fully
at this time, but will merely say that, in
our opinion, three and and IL half tons of
corn stalks and two and half tons of
corn would keep u horse year in fully |
as good condition as six tons of good hay. |
We may estimate, also, that it will take |
two and a half tons of oats to keep a
horse a year-a bushel of oats weighing
thirty-two pounds, so that it will take
over 155 bushels and three and g half tons
of straw TO keep horse q year. II would
take about two acres of good land to pro-
duce this amount.-Lice Stuck Jou1nG1.