PLAGUE OF RATS IN INDIA.
The rat threatens to be an cbafruotive In the Neilgherriea as the rabbit is m , Anairalia. The hills are overrun by them .The fields of the ryots are honeycombed by them. On estates hundreds of tea . trees have been uprooted by them, and bvibels of coffee may be gathered that. have been picked by them. Growers < f potatoes and vegetables havo lnd their crops destroyed by them, and residents «na visitors have experienced what a peit they have become m the houses. It is •uggeuted that the breeding of such birds M the eagle, the liawV, and the owl, which prey upon rats, shouH ba en'cqirraged. At present, the Neiigherrles G»me rffer rewards for the of snch birds
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1540, 23 April 1887, Page 3
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123PLAGUE OF RATS IN INDIA. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1540, 23 April 1887, Page 3
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