Show rat Is most filthy and destructive farm pest no agricultural pest in existence affects a greater number of people than the rat says the united states department of agriculture and nu no other pest Is so clo doyly jely associated with both the business and domestic sides df t farm life yet losses by rats have been sustained for so long ionly they have been taken aiken for granted as the forces of nature but in the present day of rigid accounting an and d effle efficiency lency even losses los tes from the elements are insured against and the time la Is approaching when the constant drain through rat de preda eions will no longer be tolerated the uncanny elusiveness of rats necessitates a matching of wits if one I 1 Is to be successful in destroying them in the war on rats one Is not confronted with a stupid insect that requires only the employment of a routine control procedure for wholesale destruction hut but with a wary animal that tins has instincts closely akin to human intelligence to be rid of rats would be worth a thousand the usand times what it might cost it Is to the interest of every home high and low rich and poor to coop co op orate erate earnestly in furthering a sentiment of intolerance against this filthy find and destructive pest |