RAT-CATCHERS

Grey River Argus, 25 March 1943, Page 6

RAT-CATCHERS

The American Nature Association affirms that a pair of nesting hawks will destroy more than 1000 mice and rats during the nesting season alone, and a nesting season lasts only about three months, says a contributor to Forest and Bird. An Alabama “hawk exterminator” claimed to have killed 470 hawks. T'hat would be 500 rats and mice each for these 470 hawks, which would have killed and eaten 235,000 rats and mice during the three months’ nesting period. A rat will eat at least half-a-pound of grain per week. In twelve weeks 1,410,000 pounds of grain would be eaten out of the nockets of farmers.