Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1905 — A Plague of Mice. [ARTICLE]

A Plague of Mice.

In the town of Merriwa, in New South Wales, a plague of mice is disturbing the people. Recently 10,000 mice were killed in four nights in one store. Upward of 500 were captured while a cricket net was being unrolled. Four or five bushels of oats in a bag were appropriated by the mice in a night. A local well ceased to yield water, and on examination it was found to contain a solid mass several feet deep of dead mice. Food, water and bedding are overrun, contaminated and injured. The townspeople are fighting the terrible little visitors night and day, but at last accounts they had made little impression upon the swarms of vermin.