PLAGUE OF RATS.
Sir, —I read with dismay the account in the Herald some days past of the rat« at which rats increase, which is enough to make the stoutest heart quail. Some years ago I read of a London eating-bouse which was '"nfeited with rats, and to cope with the evil they shut a foxterrier all night in the room, and in the morning nothing remained but his bones. In these days of science is it impossible to cope with any evil ? Could not the sheds be (as near as possible) hermetically sealed at night when work is over and no one has any business there, and then, poison gas let loose, ae near the ground as possible. Of course, all dogs would have to be shut out, and if a few cat» fell victims, well, I think the most tender-hearted would say they could be spared. I offer this suggestion for what it is worth. Perhaps our professors would give it their attention. One gave me some time ago through a friend an effectual remedy for ants. Gran-Dmothek.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17212, 14 July 1919, Page 6
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