COBRA

poisonous snake of tropical Asia, especially India; attains a length of almost 6 ft., and is remarkable for its hood formed by the skin of the neck being expanded by the anterior ribs, bearing a white spectacle-mark on the back. It is exhibited by Ind. snake charmers. N. haje is the African cobra, or spy-slange. (1846), an American public official, 0. in Jefferson county, Wis. Going to Kansas after the Civil War, in which he had served as a soldier, he engaged in farming and stock raising. He was Secretary of the State department of Agriculture of Kansas in 1882, and again from 1894 to 1914. He has written much on agricultural subjects, among his works being Swine Husbandry; The Book of Alfalfa; Swine in America and about thirty volumes on similar subjects published by the State of Kansas.