Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-04-19

A few patches of ground in this
county have been planted to al
falfa with good results, and greatly
increased acreage is likely this
year. In this connection the fol-
lowing, taken from a recent issue
OF the National LiUe Stock Journal,
is not without local interest. Mr..
Welker is son-in-law to the late
DR.. N. G. Griffith, and 7. P. Rus
sell is a son of the late Giles Rus
sell of Arcadia: 81. M. Welker,
manager of the Alfalfa Farming
Co. of Pemiscot county, Mo-, was
here this morning with a six-car
string of cattle and a load of hogs.
The 1902 head were graded Short
horn, plain, fat steers averaging
iii pounds and sold at $3.50 per
cwt. They had been fed corn and
alfalfa hay since November Goth
last, and up to the time that the
alfalfa hay gave out made an aver
age gain of a fraction over 2 1-2
pounds per day per head, which
was a better average gain than the
steers made when the alfalfa was
not used, as was shown by the fact
that they have scales located on
their farm and the cattle were
weighed each month. The Alfalfa
Farming Co., of which T. P. Rus
sell of Cape Girardeau, and G. l..
Whitener of Fredericktown, are
principal owners, and j. M. We'll
ker the active manager, owns 1920
acres of land, 60 acres of which
was sown to alfalfa in April, 1904,
and they harvested three crops
from it that year, and last year
five crops were taken from the
field. This year they are adding
40 acres more, and Mr.. Welker
says that from present indications
they will harvest the first crop not
later than the Goth of May. Mr..
Welker is an alfalfa enthusiast,
and says that one thing that will
seem strange to the average per-
son, but which he can demonstrate
to be an absolute fact, is that
meadow land in the Southeast part
of Missouri, where he resides, when
seeded to alfalfa, will rent for 500
per acre, and the gain that was
made by the large bunch of steers
which he brought to market to-
day certainly demonstrates that he
knows how to feed to get the best
returns for labor and feed, and
that the alfalfa he raises is of the
kind that won the prize at the
Worlds Fair. He is also a public
spirited and prominent man of
Pemiscot county, and recently
represented that comfy in the
Legislature"
From the Sunnyside Magazine for
March we reproduce the following:
civilian Trauernicht, the we'll
known tailor and clothier of Mid
dlebrook, is one of the richest men
in Southeast Missouri, every dol
lar of his money having been made
by his own energy and enterprise.
He was born at Pilot Knob, reared
at Ironton, learned his trade at
Pennington and st. Louis and es-
tablished himself in business in
1878 with $500 worth of stock. In
the days when Iron county was
turning out iron he employed usu-
ally twelve tailors, now he has
five, mostly raised in the shop and
been with him many years. Many
of the leading tailors of Southeast
Missouri were trained by him. Mr..
Trauernicht is a man of original
ideas and has introduced into his
business improved methods of
making clothing, so that his coats
will hold their shape so long as
there is a piece of them left; his
customers are scattered all over
the country from Main to Cali
fornia. Mr.. T. has helped to Or
ganize and capitalize a number of
flourishing institutions in this &c
ton, some of them being the bank.
flour mill, hotel and hotel annex
at Bismarck, Mo-; the st. Fran
co.'s County Electric Railway, Ar
cadia Creamery, and the Gale
donia Bank. He has a natural
history collection, mineral speci-
mems and interesting articles used
in the daily life of peoples from
all over the world. Everything in
this museum was made a present
to him. Mr.. Trauernicht is a
Knight Templar and a Shriner.
He has been postmaster at Middle
brook for the past rs years demon
strating that he is a good Repub-
lican and a good Democrat, a
broad minded man with many
friends and no enemies, a splendid
entertainer and always ready to
assist in public improvements and
the advancement of his fellowman.
He married Fredericka Block, the
charming daughter of one of the
Oldest families at Middlebrook,
and has a family of two fine
sons"