Show damage done by rats the western farmer Is waking up to a realization of the fact that he is as the agricultural department told him some time ago losing not less than a year from rats says J H van burden a milwaukee grain merchant it costs about 50 cents a year to feed a rat we know this because we have boxed them up and fed them as much grain as they would eat tor for a year it Is a conserva live estimate to place our rat tion at about one third of them live in the large cities where they do not get so much grain |