Show n e of or tInts Down at nt Washington ashin ton a n certain act entitle gentleman Dr LaltA of or Uncle rams ram's biological ical department has been beem 1 finding out some facts rats that tha t wIt Ill make us liS like Jlko them less lees than over o lie He le M says S 'S among other dero derogatory ator timings things s. s In i n his recent report of the Limo rodent that tha t be the brown own rat Is time worst mammal mamma 1 P eAt At in existence and anti he ho gives hes point ti tiis to tobis h his bis is ob observation cl by h asserting that lw two r Ats in four years rears will multiply ti to I I and will eat oat grain worth m 1 every er year rca r. r The Tho government o has at nt last been I ohU o ed to start tart an active campaign o 0 of i d destruction against tit I undesirable e c citizen which h will b be 15 so 80 thorough I. I a an and nd scientifically JI carried out that Mr tl i and his 11 detestable Ills Ilk win will vII is sl s OllI be ie put pretty out of 0 f i hu u a I it ess The world has Ims been boost Il fighting rats rat s several s say Lantz but laut hut lii Ih the C warfare hILs has hs been neither systematic C nor persistent dumber of r 1 lle hIe devices tI and l formulas for fr killing the rodents that have been put forth forti h. h would nil lUl volumes volume and anal still lUll the time pes Ies ie sat rat survives sur a and anal grows IrO more mar C Cand and as 31 the thc devices Ice for I 1 Its S destruction gain galum aln in ingenuity nult All 11 rats are dangerous foes but hul tim the C brown rat ts Is the worst pest pet t In existence In the tho United States I It tl t destroys more property than all iii the tim th C Cother other noxious animals combined N Xo o 0 s of or the actual dama damage lamae e annual annual- r ly done t by these rodents have ha been bee tm gathered In In Denmark tim the to toos los loss os is 15 put pul at Rt a n year yur In I a Franco France the time damage by h- both hoth rats an and 1 mice has hns on be-on e estimate J I at Lt Q v. A single singie rat will sIll cor about abom it two ounces of or wheat nt ore ort du da more a mm n. n day I. I and ani destroy far ar more pf car the latter ii t n It eats ls as AR indeed It does mom most moat it other food tood Tho The nv average rage cost to tho country of oC fC feeding a 0 rat on grain is ls LS about 50 cents a a. year tIr If for ear each ii cow horse hOrRe sheep sheep and anti hog bog on the thc fArms farni Is o of the time United Mates the r farmers SUf ur m. m cart nort one ODe rat on grain th toll In Itt cereals by these rodent wouldn would woul Imi rt n leach rach the tle enormous total of a at year yea They imey w v through S lead pipe Hood flooding In ic buildings building M wRt water r or lIlting them with 0 ga They injure furniture ur and anil the doors door of oC building and nd eat at tabulation from flom the electric wires thui cau disastrous fires s. s The vea I average e fire loss IOAS In the United d tat duo to defective Insulation Is 15 placed at 1 tf annually a 1 con considerable part o of or which is aid ald to be he caused b by rats In addition to the direct do homage damage i the they do rats Slits are arc I n to be its active I agents In cair carrying Ing disease l e ee e g germs from front house to house and from city to H city The bubonic pla plague up l Ls L usually disseminated nat nat-d from port to port ort In this way ny Their Ther is the time chief obstacle cia cle to their extermination Thy They pro pru- duce luce young from three to six times Jmes a a. year ar The female when about three e months the average R litter being about ten len but hut often orten n numbers n era fourteen cn or OJ more If three o Utter hitters of or ten ch are ore pro produced Juel every year nT n a single pair ou check cl or ca' without losses h by w de d th would uhl In three thre ye years earM r be represented by lIy ten g generations mern antI and would number numb or individuals Individual Tie The eleventh ele generation tine due at the beginning be h.- be ginning o ot otho time tho fourth j e r Ol num- num her a hundred millions I |