The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-12-26
MILLIONS IN JACKS
Kansan Has 10000 Fenced in
and Corn.Fed on Ranch.
Confident That Sunfiower Venlson
viii Bring Him Fortune and
Solve Perpiexlns Meat
e. ssf Problem. t-.-.

Kansas City, Mo.--It's easy to 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 Is to remove the underpin-
ming from the market quotations on
beef Is the Kansas jack rabbit. At
least that is what Samuel G. Craw-
ford says. Mr.. Crawford also says
that he has the making Of mighty
nifty little rabbit ranch near Grace,
Kan, and that he has come to Kansas
City to arrange for cold storage facil'
"Sunf1ower venison."
1t may be Mr.. Crawford was dream.
ing as he sat in the lobby Of the Ho.
tel White looking at the rain through
a haze Of cigar smoke. He says that
the wasn't. In fact, Mr.. Crawford was
has a real, bona fide, about-to-be-pros-
porous reservation for long-eared bun.
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 1t 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
as 10000 jack rabbits in chicken wire
Enclosure. | got most of 'em from a
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 a 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 off
these rabbits. I'm going to ship EN-
In carload lots to Kansas City, and put
'em in cold storage. Then I'm going to
sell EN- out for export and for the
New York trade. T..
There's millions In this idea Think
of Paris eatin' horse meat when II
could be eatin' jack rabbit. Think Of
Berlin doing the same thing when 1t
might be livin' on corn-fed bunny.
Think Of New York's East side smack.
in It's lips over Belgian hare,
when It might have good, healthy
meat raised in the open. That's where
most OF the rabbits are going
straight to Paris and Berlin. ex.
pect to invade London II l can get
rabbits enough. e.,
And | don't mind telling you con.
fdential that there's goin' to be some
canned 'venison' on the market just
as soon as I can make arrangements
for little packing plant. That's some.
thing new, too, amt It? Thought so,
But all you got to do is to squirt a
little California port wine into every
can, an you'll have something that
tastes more like venison than deer
meat itself.
Jack rabbit is what the world Is
hungry for-good cid Kansas jack rab-
bits, corn fed an drippin' fat-an'
there's millions in 1t. Let's have an.
other cigar r
Mr.. Crawford was buying the three
fort dollar kind Could he have been
dreaming? D.