Show 1JIE KU55IAV THISTLE TEST The Russian thistle promises to excite ex-cite considerable debate In Congress during the pr sent session In anticipation antici-pation of the bill becoming a law one individual anxious to take his turn at I the public teat wrote Secretary MorAL Mor-AL u = ton asking that he be made Grand I High Russian Thistle Exterminator for the State of Iowa and is said to have received in reply the following lather sarcastic letter from the secretary The Hansbrough bill will probably be amended to provide an appropriation appropria-tion for the destruction of the cockle burr foxtail grass and rattlesnakes which secrete themselves in all kinds of grass The government will probably prob-ably in Its munificent and tender care of its children also distribute in orig inal packages antidotes for snake bites to farmers also a permit to each farmer to draw directly upon the treasury treas-ury for each days work in the extermination exter-mination of weeds upon his or any other farm Possibly however before the bill is rounded off on Its presenta tion it will provide a patent method of ploughing with preambles planting with resolutions and gathering and garnering by legislative enactment all crops known to the farmers of the United States The tillage of land by legislation is only a matter of time |