Show first catch your rat in many places of 0 the country rats have been far greater posts pests than usual and this has led a scranton Sc roan man to write as follows to the new york times defore before coming coaling to scranton I 1 was located borated in a mill situated on a river bank and in the tall fall of the year we were always troubled with rats in large numbers which caused great damage and annoyance and we therefore were very much interested in eliminating the pett pest the tiling thing that we found most efficient in this line was a bacteria called azoa which will not affect dogs or cats or poultry or pets of that nature but will inoculate the rats rata and as the bacteria develops it destroys the animal rats being cannibalistic in their nature feed on one another and in this way they distribute this disease among themselves and work heir belr own destruction destruct on in the experiments that were made with this bacteria in its early stages some of it was used on isolated farros farms and later laier rats were found to be destroyed by this material three to five miles from brorn the orl inal place in W cicil it was fed |