34 ANIMAL COMPETITORS 
and catch a surprising number of victims until 
all are frightened away. 
Coéperation, necessary to subdue the pest. 
Little that is really effective can be done, how- 
ever, without codperation in each district.’ 
To destroy the animals on the premises of a 
single farmer in a community has little perma- 
nent value, since they are soon replaced from 
near-by farms. If, however, the farmers of 
an entire township or county unite in efforts to 
get rid of rats, much more lasting results may 
be attained. Such organized efforts repeated: 
with reasonable frequency are very effective. 
Codperative efforts to destroy rats have 
_taken various forms in different localities. In 
cities municipal employés have occasionally 
been set at work hunting rats from their re- 
treats with at least temporary benefit to the 
community. Thus, in 1904, at Folkestone, Eng- 
land, a town of about 25,000 inhabitants, the 
corporation employés, helped by dogs, in three 
days killed 1,645 rats. A better example is re- 
ported from India, where codperative work 
1See Codperation among Farmers, by Prof. John Lee Coul- 
ter. In this Library, 1911, 75 cents. 
