STACKS AND RATS
It seems that Lincolnshire is in need of a Pied Piper, for the farmers are complaining of armies of rats which are eating their way into stacks and doing immense damage. Rats which make themselves at home for the winter in the middle of a stack may cost the farmer as much as £2O. Hitherto no one seems to have known how to keep them out, but now a Saxby farmer is trying an experiment which we may be sure other farmers will copy if it proves to be satisfactory. He is Mr Hope Barton, and his notion is to build his stacks on a platform resting on 12 concrete pillars about 36 inches high. The pillars are smooth and at the top of each is a circular piece of tin about a yard across. Whether the rats will be able to leap into the straw remains to be seen, but at any rate they will And it much more difficult to take up their winter quarters in Mr Barton's stacks than in others placed on the ground.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23691, 24 December 1938, Page 9
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181STACKS AND RATS Otago Daily Times, Issue 23691, 24 December 1938, Page 9
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