Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1913 — To Kill Rats. [ARTICLE]
To Kill Rats.
A London scientist has suggestea that the ouetom of keeping house snakes, so prevalent in the tropics now sad In all sections erf the world in ancient dears, be revived as a precaution against rats that are now 1 proved to be the vehicles of plague germs. The snake Is regarded as a much â– user exterminator of rats than either terrier* or oats.