Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1919 — Rat Plague in England. [ARTICLE]

Rat Plague in England.

Brown rats are increasing so rapidly in rural England that they have become a plague and the board of agriculture |is preparing for a campaign the rapacious rodent. Immense loss es wheat has been caused by the rats. In some districts unthreshed stacks have been riddled with rat runs and are almost fallen tn. It is estimated that a grown rat can eat two ounces of wheat a day and spoil inuch more.