Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

     Woodford County is the scene of a rat pest. Farmers have been holding their corn cribs for a long time and the rats have been growing strong and healthy on a straight corn diet. They have bred with frightful rapidity, and now that the corn is being hauled away they look for new sources of food. Garden patches have been rifled, and some of the residents have almost been driven out of house and home.. The other day a Woodford County farmer tore down an old corn crib. He had secured a lot of ferrets and some excellent rat dogs and went to work to exterminate as far as possible the rodent population of his farm. In one day he killed 2,000 rats, and then there were plenty left.