Times Independent | 1928-10-18 | Page 3 | Russians Use Rats to Exterminate Rats

russians use rats to exterminate rats kat eating rats are being bred ID leningrad thirty pairs of rats acre put in thirty ages and for a long period given no food in some cases one member of the pair then ate the other these rat eating rata were then in turn paired until by process of elimination several super rat eaily rats were developed breed ing was then begun with these raven ous monsters as a base the idea id to develop a system of self rat atlon rats are a serious problem in leningrad being there and many methods of extermination aie being tried the loss to leningrad through destruction by rats Is estl mated at annually kat ex termination centers have been formed in 20 2 0 operative cooperative co stores ninety six factories ten storehouses three mark ets and thirty eight other establish ments and now the rat eating rot la to be let loose on hla brethren