Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1912-11-19
MILLIONS IN JACKS
kansan Has 10000 Fenced In
and corn.Fed on Ranch.
Confident That eunfiower venlson
Will Bring Him . Fortune and
Solve Psrpiexlns Meat
Problem.

Kansas City, No. it, eAsy b beat
the high cost Of living. All you have
to do Is to eat jack rabbit and like
It. Very simple. indeed. Numerous
experiments have been tried for the
cheapening Of meat They range all
the way from frog ranches" to bear
FARMS" including deer preserves and
wild geese hatcheries. But the one
thing that 10 to remove the underpin-
ming from the market quotations on
beef is the Kansas Jack rabbit. At
least that 10 what Samuel G. Craw-
ford says. Mr.. Crawford also says
that he has the making Of q mighty
nifty little rabbit ranch near Grace.
Kan. and that he has come to Kansas
City to arrange for cold storage facil-
tiles necessary to the handling Of
'Sunflower venison."
1t may be Mr.. Crawford was dream
ing az he sat In the lobby Of the Ho-
tel White looking at the rain through
. haze Of cigar smoke. He says that
the wasn't In fact, Mr.. Crawford was
emphatic in the declaration that he
has real, bona fide, aboutto- be-pros-
porous reservation for long-eared bum
MES In the immediate vicinity OF
Grace. and that there's millions In
IT," But give Mr.. Crawford chance
to speak for himself.
Sounds funny. does IT." says Mr..
Crawford, says he, passing the cigars.
but It amt no Joke. Neither am try
ing to sell stock in the enterprise. You
see. I've leased several hundred acres
Of land in northwestern Kansas, just
about halfway between Grace and
Quickville. l reckon I've got as many
a. 10000 jack rabbits in chicken wire
Enclosure. I got most Of 'em from .
rabbit drive. which promoted among
the farmers Of that county. The rest
l got for eight cents apiece from the
farmer boys who trap 'em. I'm feed
ing 'em corn. and they fatten up like
steers-weigh eight or ten pounds In
prime condition.
And talk about your good eatin'-
say, fellows, II you never sunk your
teeth into . Stalled Kansas jack rab-
bit. you don't know what eatin' is
that's all. Have another cigar?
I'm going to wait until the cold
weather and then begin to kill of
these rabbits. I'm going to ship 'em
in carload lots to Kansas City, and put
'em in cold storage. Then I'm going to
sell 'em out for export and for the
New York trade.
There's millions in this idea. Think
Of Paris eatin' horse meat when 1t
could be eatin' jack rabbit. Think Of
Berlin doing the same thing when 1t
might be nvin' on corn-fed bunny.
Think Of New York's East side smack
In its lips over Belgian hare.
when 1t might have good, healthy
meat raised In the open. That's where
most of the rabbits are going
straight to Paris and Berlin. I ex-
pect to invade London IL can get
rabbits enough.
And don't mind telling you con-
fldential that there's goin' to be some
canned 'venison' on the market just
a. soon as l can make arrangements
for little packing plant. That's some
thing new, too, amt It? Thought 20.
But all you got to do Is to squirt .
little California port wine into every
can, an you'll have something that
tastes more like venison than deer
meat itself.
Jack rabbit IL what the world 10
hungry for-good old Kansas jack rab-
bits, corn fed an drippin' fat-an
there's millions In 1t. Let's have an
other cigar"
Mr.. Crawford was buying the three
fora dollar kind. Could he have been
dreaming?