Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1878 — Exterminating Rats. [ARTICLE]

Exterminating Rats.

What is called “the Dutch way with rate ”is this : A number of rats are left to themselves in a very large trap or cage, with no food whatever. Their cravin? huuger.will cause them to fight, and the weakest will be eaten by the strongest. After a short time the fight is renewed, and the next weakest is the victim, and so it gees on till one strong rat is left. When this one has eaten the last remains of the others it is let loose. The animal hss now acquired such a taste for rat flesh that he is the terror of all ratdom, going about seeking what rat he may devour. In an incredibly short time the premises are abandoned by all other rats, which will not come back before tbe cannibal rat bftß left or died.