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Show Rat Is Most Filthy and Destructive Farm Pest No agricultural pest in existence iffects a greater number of peoife than the rat, says the United States Department of Agriculture, and no Dther pest is so closely associated with both the business and domestic sides Df farm life. Yet losses by rats have been sustained for so long that commonly com-monly they have been taken for grant-id grant-id as the forces of nature. But in the present day of rigid accounting and efficiency, even losses from the ele-1 ele-1 ments are insured against, and the I time is rapily approaching when the constant drain through rat depredations depreda-tions will no longer be tolerated. The uncanny elusiveness of rats necessitates ne-cessitates a matching of wits if one is to be successful in destroying them. In the war on rats one is not eon-fronted eon-fronted with a stupid insect that requires re-quires only the employment of a rou-i rou-i tine control procedure for wholesale ' destruction, but with a wary animal that has instincts closely akin to human hu-man intelligence. To be rid of rats would be worth a thousand times what it might cost. It is to the interest of every home, high and low, rich and poor, to co-operate earnestly in furthering a sentiment senti-ment of intolerance against this filthy and destructive pest. |
