RATS AS FOOD HOARDERS.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 40, 17 December 1920, Page 6

RATS AS FOOD HOARDERS.

Several extraordinary performanees of rats have come to notice during the clearing away of. badly infested premises in Barnsley. The infestation was due to that very common cause — a defective sewer — - which had given the vermin easy access to the shops and warehouses. In ofe case the rats had conveyed a heap of monkeynuts, sufficient to fxll 23 baskets, not to men tion quantities of raisins and other ; foodstuffs, from a grocer's into, a linendraper's shop. In a three-storeyed grain store, the rats had packed the spaces between the floorboards with eorn of all ■ kinds, sufBcient in amount, at a rough estimate, to fill 200 to 300 sacks. These individual instances are a sufficient index to the damage rats ean do to merchandise.