American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1873-01-25
USEFUL SUGGESTIONS.

THE profit in farming is all made from
growing large crops. A farmer cannot
make any clean money out of fifteen BUSH
els of wheat to the acre, or thirty bushels
of corn to the acre, or twenty bushels of
oats, or ton of hay; nor from pastures
which afford Just enough feed to Keep the
animals from growing poor. Don't his
own experience prove IL TO himself beyond
a question!
WILLIAM NJ. VIKINGS patent for the
manufacture of artificial ivory has lately
been extended by the Commissioner of
Patents for seven years. The article Is
COMPOSED of ten ounces of white shellac,
four and half ounces acetate of lead,
eight ounces of camphOr. The ingretli-
ents are reduced to powder, heated and
mixed, then pressed into heated mOulds,
into sheets or other desired FORMS
american Chemist.
CRACKED WHARTON a pint of the
cracked grain have two quarts of water
boiling in a smooth iron pot ever n quick
fire, stir in the wheat slowly, boil fast and
stir constantly for the first halt hour of
cooking. or until it begins to thicken and
''pop up Then lift from the quick fire
and place the pot where the wheat will
cook slowly for an hour longer. Keep it
covered closely. SUR now and then, and be
careful not to let it burn at the bottom.
A WRITER in Van Nostrand's Eclectic
Magazine tor December, proposes that re-
fined oils for illuminating purposes, be
sold by weight instead of by measure, as
is now customary. The better quality of
oils are the heavier, and if the retailers
were compelled to sell in the same manner
as the re1iners, the small purchaser would
have in the weight and color of the oil a
reader test of its worth as an illumination
than any legislative enactmentsw would sup
ply.
Mr.. Milton Briggs, of Kellogg, Iowa,
says, in the Homestead, that various ex-
periments have proved the fact that corn
fed to hogs has produced all the way from
two to twenty pounds gain a bushel, ac-
cOrding to the different modes of prepar-
ing feed, and the age, breed or condition
of hogs fed. He is satisfied that over one
half of all the hogs fed in Iowa do not
produce over five pounds gross weight
for each bushcl of corn fed, which, count
ing hogs at So per hundred pounds gives
fifteen cents per bushel for corn.
The american Builder gives the follow
ing method of making sand-paper of SUI
periOr quality, at almost nominal cost !:
The device for making sand-paper is SIM
pie, and at hand to any one who has oc-
casiOn to use the paper. A quantity of
ordinary window-glass is taken-that
having a green color is said to be best
and pounded fine, after which it is poured
through one or more sleeves of different
degrees Of fineness, to secure the glass for
coarse or fine paper. Then any tough pa
per is covered evenly with glue, having
about One-third more water than is gen.
orally employed in wood work. The glass
is sifted upon the plper, allowed day or
two in which to become fixed in the glue,
when the refuse glass is shaken of and
the paper is tit for use. This sand-paper
costs little, and is better than that Ordi-
norily hnuUht in which sand is frouI1pntlv
mingled with the glass.
How TO MAKE COOP CIDER. Take good
sound apples (the sweeter the apples, the
richer the cider; although apples lightly
tart make cider of the beSo flavOr) late in
the fall, the later the better, before freeZ-
ing. Early apples and wind falls may do
for vinegar, but will not make cider that
will keep any length of time; Fill the
barrel full. put in the cellar, take out the
plug and let the cider ferment for about
ten days. keeping the barrel full with cider
at the same time. In this way most of
the pOmace is thrown out. This, hON ever,
is not very sential. After the cider has
worked about ten days, take a long slim
bag that. when filled, will go in at the
bun9 hole. put in about one pound of
English mustard tor every 30 gallons, and
drop into the cider, then cork the barrel
air tight and let il stand about three weeks,
then draw oil into another barrel. Orput
back in same barrel after thoroughly
cleansing it; see that the barrel is full,
then cork tight. Cider treated in this
way will remain unchanged until warm
spring weather, when it may be bottled
for summer use. Cider will gradually get
hard if the barrel is daily drawn from in
that case bottle when the flavor just
suits. Sulphite of lime kills the life of eli
der and renders it rs flavOrless and WORTH
less as dish water.