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many times more food than :hey eat. Rats maim and kill chickens and small animals. In one state a farmer found 600 day-old chicks dead one morningkilled by vicious rats. These pests destroy property by gnawing, burrowing, and nesting. Grain bags, papercartons, and wood containers receive the worst damage, but even concrete, brick, metal, and wood are gnawed. Rats start fires by chewing electric wire insulation, and they ruin electrical appliances by short -circuiting open switches. R at burrows seriously weaken foundations and bottom floors. Lyne saidratscarrycontagious abortion, distemper, iriange, and rabies^ Alljold, over 35 known rat-"borne diseases threaten animals and
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