Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 133, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1918 — Kept Two Mice Busy Whole Year Operating Thread Mill. [ARTICLE]

Kept Two Mice Busy Whole Year Operating Thread Mill.

A thrifty Scotchman, David Hutton, conceived the idea of using mouse pow’er commercially, relates the Popular Science Monthly. He experimented and found that a mohse wilk run on an average ten and one-half miles a day. One mouse in Mr. Hutton’s collection actually ran 18 miles In one day. The power of a mouse Is not much when compared -to horse power; yet, it is enough to spin cotton thread. The cost of a mouse upkeep is not very high. One mouse was kept in fine working cqndition for 35 days on one-half penny’s worth of oatmeal. During those 35 days that mouse run 862 miles. Mr. Hutpbn built a thread mill for his mice'which was so constructed that the mouse was able to twist and reel from 100 to 220 threads a day. The mouse ran ten and a half miles every other day. Two mice were kept constantly engaged in the spinning of thread for more than a year.