The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1903-03-06

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Copyright, 1901. by ]. s. Trigg, Rock
ford, Iowa.)
Correspondence Solicited.
mo hog cholera has about as much
10 do with existing prosperity all
through the corn belt as any other one
thing. ,
Now if you want to set out a rose
bush next spring which will surely full
fill your a"nticipations set out a Grim
son Rambler, which will give you more
flowers for your trouble than any other
flower we know of.
The oleo men are working up a trade
for the uncolored product by furnish
ing materials and directions for color
ing to the purchaser. Thirty-two cent
western extra obscures any refined SEN
timents ON this matter.
England rebels and protests against
American enterprise and aggressive
ness. She thinks we work too hard and
too long. Were it not that these traits
are taking her markets away from her
perhaps she would not care.
If you think freight rates too high in
this country, just mind that 1t costs as
much to ship a car of grain over Eng
lish railroads a distance of 40 miles in
to London as 1t does to ship h same
amount of grain from Chicago to Lon
don.
The creamery interests of the u
try contributed about $27 900 to secure
the passage of the oleomargarfne law,
while the National Livestock associa-
ton contributed $4,000 to defeat it. The
COWS had the most money behind them
and beat the steers.
The savings banks of the country
have generally restored the rate Of In
terest paid on deposits to A per cent,
their deposit accounts having been de-
pleted for investment in Canada lands
which will not pay A per cent to the
investors for a good many years to
come.
Cottonseed meal after the oil has been
taken out is the richest in protein OF
any of the prepared stock foods. Lin
seed oil meal comes next. Neither one
of these products, Notwithstanding they
carry SO large an mount of milk pro-
ducing elements, is a desirable dairy
ration, as they injuriously affect the
quality of the milk and butter product.
On a late winter day we watched a
chickadee on a lively hunt up and down
an apple tree after something to eat.
There was not a bug or an insect in
sight, but we found he was after the
little clusters of insect eggs, waiting
only the warmth of spring to develop
into some form of our insect pests. II
we had more chickadees, we would have
better apples.
We think there were more poor ap-
Piles raised last year than we have ever
known, the Easter fruit particularly
being gnarly, understood and defective
1t is evident that more attention will
have to be paid in the future to the va
rious insect pests, which were the pri'
mary cause of so much poor fruit. Tt
quit killing the birds would be a goot
starter in this direction.
How many acres of corn should ONE
man and a team try to care for? on
nan a fifty, another forty, another
thirty. One says he would not keep 6
hand who would not average ten acre!
a day in blowing the corn, while an
other man says he would fire a hand
who would try to get over more thar
six acres. We have noticed this much
that it is the ten-acre a day fellow whC
usually raises the thirty-five bushel al
acre crop, while the six-acre man OTTER
gets sixty.
A correct record kept Of the rainfall
for ten years, 1903 to 1902, at a poin
in east central Iowa shows the precipi
tation by inches for each year as fol
lows:
Inches. Inches
1893 .........22.9 1898 .........21.
1894 ........19.2 1894 .29.9
1895 ........19.0 1900 .........31.1
1896 1851 1901 POI
1897 .........27.9 1902 .........51.5
These figures give an average of 28.2
inches for the ten year period and shoy
up the wet season of 1902 in goo
shape. This rainfall record probabl,
fairly reflects the precipitation for al
the north Mississippi valley region TO
the period given.
Here are a few roses which you viii
find very satisfactory: Fol climbers, tn
red, white and yellow Ramblers; eve
blooming roses, Bride, Wooton, Sou