Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — COST OF RATS. [ARTICLE]

COST OF RATS.

I see where it costs $100,000,000 in grain to feed the rats. When we come to think of it each rat on the farm eats to live and what’s to hinder a fair size healthy rat eating as much as a chicken, in grain? Every rat on the place would cost at least a dollar each in the course of a year and in that event there are enough rats on the average farm to buy a horse every year for the amount of feed they get away with. Seems as though if one has to spend even $25 in their extermination, it would pay.