Show rats cost americans big sum ye yearly arly L 6 9 the wealthiest of american EVEN millionaires soon would be a babli rupt bupt it if he had to pay out the rats annual board bill it costs too tale american people yearly to teed feed on grain alone that worst mammalian malian pest according to a statement ent from the experts of the agricultural department entitled the rat problem an active campaign to rid tho the country of the pest peat is strongly urged untold millions of dollars in prop erty are being destroyed every year by the rat als othe principal agent adgent in the dissemination ot of bubonic plague the rats bill of adru fa ru includes every thing eaten by man mai aad carrion raton mice kid gloves ivory and living horses hoots hoofs its ita most common foods are corn ands and grain ono one rat will eat cents worth of grain ida in a year while of oatmeal it will consume worth through pollution Dol lution of tood food products it does ad as much damage e as by eating bitting them it also does gr great eat damage by digging under buildings and embank ments by gnawing wood cutting holes in sacks and by cutting up goods and papers tomake to anke nests kill ing young poultry and stealing eggs are among it s destructive babets babl habits ts the rap rapidity edity with which rats mul tilly Is the main reason why man appears to make so BO little headway in their destruction it Is calculated that a single pair of rats and their progeny breeding without interruption and sut suf fering no losses would in three years behre increase to more than construction of buildings especially the use of concrete in foundations eions Is urged the rats food supply could be reduced and their numbers thereby decreased by tho the disposal ot of garbage and the protection of food supplies the says sayi |