American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-08-29
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Weeds should be kept down every
| where. Thistles wild parsnips and car
| rots, mulleins and burdocks, in neglected
| corners and fence rows should be cut up
| by the root, and the tops gathered and
| burned. Many weeds are now ripenlng
| their seeds and if neglected will make
work for many years to come.
| Cement for Glass, China and Wood.
Steep Russian isinglass twenty-tour
| hours in white brandy. gently boil and
stir the mixture until it is well com
pouaded and drop of it, cooled, will
| become thick Jelly; then strain it
| through IA linen 9th, and cork closely
A gentle heat will dissolve it. Apply to
| the edges, place them together, and hold
| them five minutes.
| -Dyeing Ornamental Feathers Black.
Place them for twenty-four hours in Il
| soda bath that is not too sire g, then
| rinse well and place for twelve hours in
| an per cent. solution of nitrate of iron ;
rinse well again and dye with logwood
and fustic. If the black appears reddish,
draw the feathers through dilute sui
phuric acid and boil Il short time in II
| weak bath of fustic.
-Stiffening Gauze Good wheat starch
| and white wax are employed, either cold
or warm, according to the color. The
gauZe on removal from the starch is per
fectly UNFINISHED, pressed out and clapped
with the hands SO that the starch may be
uniform distributed. Any meshes that
may still appear filled with starch may
be freed from it when the gauze is
stretched on the drying pad by brushing
| it with the hand or, better, with Il soft
brush. Small starched pieces can also
be placed On the finishing drum, since
the starch remaining in any meshes will
stick to the drum when the gauZe is re-
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unavoidably have "a spotted luster on the
side next the drum.-Ha,7'er's Bazar.
In the training of a little girl great
pains should be taken to discover what
gift or talent she has, if any, and, what
ever her circumstances, to fit her for its
use. Even putting the money value of
such art or accomplishment out of the
question, its aid a resource and
strengthened is incalculable. Disap-
pointment and grief come more easily to
women than to men; they abide with
them longer, and sap more of their life
away, simply because they need the tonic
of hard, enjoyable work-not the mere
drudgery of the bread winner, but the
toll of the artist. Pride, philosophy, even
religio n, cannot give the new vitality
which such work bestows on the faithful
votary. 1t repairs bodily and mental
forces like nature itself, slowly, imper
V,
who can hnd in their daughter such
power. and give to her the means of
using it. may count themselves happy,
and her the inheritor of royal heritage.
I'm Massachusetts there is State
Board of Health, which has been paying
attention to the sanitary condition of
farmers. Its fourth annual report is
published, and an article on the above
inject, based upon the reports of country
physicians, appears. This testimony, in
Guiding evidence collected the past
twenty-eight years, shows that the aver
age life of the Massachusetts farmer is
sixty-five and one-fourth years-a greater
longevity than tina. of any other class.
Yet it is claimed that fa' mers might live
much longer if they were better and
more carefully fed, lived upon more nu
tritious and wholesome diet, ate with
greater deliberation, and were careful
not to engage in active exercise too soon
after eating. They should eat more
fruit and vegetables, less of pork, pies,
cakes, salcratus biscuit, take pains to
protect themselves better from sudden
changes of temperature, deodorize cess
pools, sinks, outhouses, and keep clean
back yards: change clothing and 5athe
more frequently. Such statistics and
suggestions are valuable, and deserve the
attention of farmers.
Pork Raising.-My own theory OF
pork raising, based upon experience, OBJ
servation and probably little philoso-
ply of things, if written for the benefit
of others, would be about as follows:
During the hot summer months l should
feed very little solid feed, such as corn
in the ear or uncracked. | would keep
hogs upon green feed constantly, either
grass, oats or rye, and feed them at reg
ular intervals, once or twice per day,
upon mashed feed, either shorts, chopped
oats or rye, buckwheat, etc; feed in
troughs. When fed in this way, and at
the same time allowed access to water
and shade, hogs will bear crowding
through the hot months, Il very good time,
if not the best, to take on flesh. This
puts them in the best condition for corn
feeding, which should commence about
the 1st of September. when the new crop
is still soft and tender. Treated in this
way hogs become probably as perfect as
any method could make them. Upon the
whole, too, believe it the cheapest and
most enonomical.-C0r. Of Gef'mantoaon
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