The Holly chieftain., 1913-02-07
M|LL|0NSI JACKS
kansan HAS 10000 Fenced b
and corn-Fed on Ranch.
CONFIDENT That sunnewer vssisen
Will orNS Him Fortune snd
eelve Peeplsxise Nest
Problem.

Kansas City. Ao.-lt's easy To beee
the high cost Of living. All you have
to do 10 to eat Jack rabbit and like
II Very stmI7e. 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 u to remove the undsrpan.
ming from the market quotations on
beef 10 the Kansas jack rabbit. At
least that 70 what Samuel @. 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 KaRsaa
City to arrange for cold storage fAcil
tiles necessary to the handling Of
"Sunfover venison."
II may be Mr.. Cawford 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 WA
emphatic in the declaration that he
has real. bona fide. about-to-be-pros
porous reservation for long-eared bun
nies In the immediate vicinity Of
Grace. and that there's millions IL
It," But give Mr.. Crawford q ehancs
to speak for himself.
Sounds runny. does it," says Mr..
Crawford. says he, passing the cigars,
but 1t amt no Joke. Neither am Itry.
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
Quickvtlle. reckon I've got as many
yas 10000 jack rabbits in chicken wire
inclosure. l got most of 'em from
rabbit drive. which l promoted among
the farmers of that county. The rest
got for eight c5nts apiece from the
farmer boys who trap EN-. 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 stall-fed Kansas Jack rab-
bit, you don't know what eatin' is
that's all. Have anoaher cigar?
I'm going to wait until the cold
weather and then begin to kill OIL
these rabbits. I'm going to ship 'em
in carload lots to Kansas City, and put
'em in cold storage Then I'm going tc
sell 'em out for export and for the
New York trade.
There's millions in this idea Think
Of Paris eatin' horse meat when it
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 its lips over Belgian hare.
when 1t might have good, healthy
meat raised In the open. That's where
most Of tie rabbits are going
straight I" Paris and Berlin. l ex.
pect to invade London II can get
rabbits enough.
And don't mind telling you con-
ndential that there's goin' to be some
canned 'venison' on the market Just
as soon as can make arrangements
Tor a little packing plant. That's some
thing new. too, amt It? Thought So
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 is what the world IL
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
for-a-dollar kind. Could he have been
dreaming?