Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 265, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1919 — RAT FAMILY NUMBERS, 48,319,- 698,843,030,344,720 IN 10 YEARS [ARTICLE]

RAT FAMILY NUMBERS, 48,319,698,843,030,344,720 IN 10 YEARS

London, Nov. 1. —In ten years the descendants of a single pair of rats, if allowed to multiply undisturbed, would number 48,319,698,843,030,344,720, according to figures prepared for the board of agriculture by a well known scientist. This calculation is an incident of the coun-try-wide campaign being waged against rats, which are said to do a yearly damage in the United Kingdom amounting to $200,000,000.