PLAGUE OF RATS.
Mysterious swarms of rats which are over-running Selby steadings, at Selby, Yorkshire, whero previously rodents were practically unknown, have been providing a puzzlo for tho farmers. Of a brown variety, much bigger than tho ordinary rat, they are collecting in huge colonies. Mr. J. Bradley, of Selby, stated lately that when be cleared a few sheaves of straw from tho comer of his barn out bolted a whole battalion of rats. "In ten minutes," he said, " wo killed over 100. In ono nest were 21 young rats. Last year there was hardly a rat on my Eilace. We've had a great kill, but* it ooks as though we could do with a Pied Pyper."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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117PLAGUE OF RATS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21136, 19 March 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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