Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-07-28

trees at intervals of ten days, twice
before the blossoms open and four
times before they fall; allowing
the hogs to eat the fallen apples
which contain large numbers of
the insect; and cultivating the soil
under the trees at least three times
between the fifteenth of July and
the middle of August.
A. Richards, who has been max
ing his home here for the past
three or four months, in the hope
that it would prove beneficial to
his health, died in a tent near
Goulding's park, whore he has
been living for several weeks,
last Saturday morning. Richards
home was in Cleveland, Ohio, and
he was afflicted with lung trouble.
Several years ago he served a
sentence in Jail here, imposed on
him by the U. S. District Court in
st. Louis for using the mails with
the purpose of defrauding. After
completing his time here he left,
but returned a few months ago in
very poor health. He came here,
as he said, because his health
seemed to have been better during
his stay here than it had been any
time since. The remains were
taken to Cleveland for interment
Monday morning.
st. Francois county, the storm
center OF POLITICAL fights, is about
to witness a unique battle between
two great banking houses, if there
be any truth to the many rumors
abroad. The advent of the Fred
ericktown Trust Company into do
mains considered sacred to the
Bank of Pennington is said to be
the cause of the money changers
trouble. The former institution
has been building branch banks
throughout Southeast Missouri and
Northern Arkansas. Several years
ago it entered the lead belt towns of
st. Francois county, and embold-
ened by success, recently marched
right into the stronghold of it's
strongest enemy in this county
Pennington. 1t is now said that
the Bank of Pennington, to punish
the presumption of the new conner,
has decided to invade Flat River
with a branch bank.-Lead Belt
NeWs.
Original experiments conducted
by the University of Missouri dur
ing a period of seven years show
conclusively that the practice of
placing diseased chinch bugs
among the healthy ones in infested
fields does little if anything tow
ards checking the ravages of this
insect. The entomologist who has
conducted the experiments places
a part of the blame for failure of
the remedy upon the farmers them
selves. "The persons receiving
these bugs" he says, "were sup
posed to place them and healthy
bugs in boxes similar to ours and
to keep them under similar condi-
tions until all were thoroughly
diseased and then scatter the in
creased quantity throughout the
wheat and corn fields. AS a mat
ter of fact, each of the seven years
| have conducted the experiment,
| have found that over half the
farmers simply scattered the bugs
we sent them"
1t is not often that the REGISTER
acknowledges with pleasure that
it has made a misstatement, but it
does so in this instance:
FLAT RIVER, Mo-, July %, 1904.
Bro. Eli d. Since the shooting
of myself at Doe Run, as stated by
the REGISTER, on my return from
Fairy Land, | find the chances for
editors that make mistakesin their
sheets very bad, but hope you will
be pardoned as readily by the ALL
Wise as by me. II SO, you are all
right, if you correct the error.
Hoping we may enjoy many years
yet, with my best wishes, | am, as
ever, j. A. PARKER. Ha! Ha!
1t was some other Parker that
untimely shuffled off this mortal
coil, and my informant was de-
ceived by the stamp of the coin.
| am glad to learn that our own J..
A. still lives to give the glad cha!
Hal" to the mistake, and earnestly
trust that his end may be set to the
furthermost bounds.
One exhibit at the Worlds Fair
that no visitor can afford to miss is
that of the agricultural products of
Missouri. This exhibit is consid-
cred by competent Judges the best
exhibit in agriculture that the
world has seen in times ancient or
modern. One half acre is occu-
pied. Fifty per cent of this is talk
en- by corn, thirty five per cent. by
wheat, oats and similar grains and
the remainder by grasses. Three
pyramids made entirely of corn
are striking features Of the exhibit.
One of these, fifty feet high, stands
in the center, the others, smaller,
are at the ends. Forming a border
about the exhibit is a series of
pictures made entirely of agricul-
Itural products showing the evolu-
'tion of agricultural processes.
The first of these shows a stick
pillow drawn by camels, the reap
hook and the threshing fail, all of
the time of Joseph; the last picture
the modern steam pillow at work in
northwest Missouri and the mod
ern machinery for reaping and
threshing. The exhibit was pre-
pared under the direction of H. j..
| Waters. Dean of the missouri Ap-