Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1913 — GOATS AS MOSQUITO NEMESIS [ARTICLE]

GOATS AS MOSQUITO NEMESIS

Army to Protect the Animals, as They Eat Pests’ Breeding Ground at Fort Washington. VV ftOulUfttUll, U» \JO V» ***** ® fflllGll army of goats Is deployed from Fort Washington, oae of the citadels guarding the Potomac river approach to the national capital, to wage war on the shrubbery that Is a breeding ground of mosquitoes, a flying squad of artillerymen probably will be ordered out to protect the goats. # , The goats will work for the benefit of the fort’s garrison by eating up the rank underbrush, while the soldiers will return the compliment by shooing their horned allies away from the mountain laurel buds, which play havoc with their digestions Fort Washington has the reputatiot of being the most malarial fort in the country and war department officials conceived the idea of enlisting the services of the goats to destroy the breeding places of the mosquitoes.