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Show - I t The popular impression j TIT ' . . . that cats do a service in j L;i I CaS Do Good ScrVICQ killing mice and rats is ab- I b Killing Rodents solutely true, the statement . of noted authorities to the 5 E-i C H. EEYERS, Gucago , . , L ,. ! 8 contrary notwithstanding. t i t 1 i ----- , I.very rat destroys, on the average, property to the value of 5 every year of its life. There are at least 5.000,000 rats in tha United States. Figure out the damage for yourselves. Every mouse destroys at least $2 worth of property every yesr of. its life. There are at least as many mice as rats in the United States. Figure out that. Now, every cat kills at least two rats and five mice each year. How much do they save to the community? There are probably 1,000,000 cats in the United States. If a cat kills one rat and two mice, that is S9 to the credit of each crt. So the cats' save to the country at large $9,000,000. Is the much-maligned cat v,'orth anything?" I have seen this time and again : A cat, fat or lean, will eat a rat 'or mouse car. eh t bv its dexterity fact! But if the cats "should not eat i'them, they kill them, and that is to their credit A cat in Chicago will destrova t least H'O sparrows every year, thereby getting rid of a little pestiferous nuisance. Ten thousand cats (and there probably are that number in Chicago) who kill about 1,000,000 of the pugnacious foreigners foreign-ers of the "bird kind. |