MAKE WAR ON RATS.
One rat destroys one farthing's worth of national wealth every day of its life.
The rat is a pest when alive and useless when dead. Under pressure of famine rats have been eaten, but one has to be pretty hungry before tackling a ragout of rodent or a rat rasher. Alive, the rat has not a single redeeming feature. He touches everything, and spoils everything he touches. THE RAT IS A FOOD-HOG.
The medical profession has long declared war on rats, called them the most efficient of germ-bearers and the cause of epidemics, but the slaying of the prolific little pest has by no means kept pace with its birth-rate. The increase of a single pair of rats in five years has been calculated at 940,369,969,152 rats. One pair of rats may have 880 descendants in a year. A rat specialist known to the writer disposes of 40,000 rats every year, visiting leading hotels, warehouses, and the like in London.
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Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2649, 24 November 1919, Page 7
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164MAKE WAR ON RATS. Cromwell Argus, Volume L, Issue 2649, 24 November 1919, Page 7
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