KILLING TRENCH RATS BY ELECTRICITY
The soldiers in the trenches upon tha battlefronts are suffering from another pesf—rats. These animals have multiplied at such a rapid rate as to render totally inadequate the various ' plans for their extermination which have been tried hitherto. After testing nearly every feasible scheme, the French soldiers in one section, chagrined at the meagre results acliiev- ' cd, decided to try a most drastics method. This is electrocution. Tim rat Tuns leading to the trenches are excavated slightly to form a narrow trough, and over each aro stretched three parallel wires, spaced a few inches apart, and kept charged with, electricity at a sufficient potential. The rats, in their stampedo across the troughs, foul the wires and aro instant, ly killed. In the section where thu simple system is in operation thf death roll is stated to amount to several hundreds weekly. The process is certainly effectual, but unfortunately the necessity of having a supply of th« "juice" conveniently at hand -militate! against its general adoption.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2907, 20 October 1916, Page 6
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170KILLING TRENCH RATS BY ELECTRICITY Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2907, 20 October 1916, Page 6
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