14 APRIL 1933, Page 6

Advocates of municipal trading will no doubt he gratified to

observe that Paris is starting a municipal stud-farm for cats, the object being to breed the type most efficient in dealing adequately with rats. The principle is not quite so novel as it sounds. After all the British Government, without making much reciante about it, runs what might be reasonably described as national bug-farms, designed to propagate the type of parasite which deals death to other types of parasite, which deal death to various types of vegetation in various quarters of the Empire. Indeed the parasite zoo at Farnham Royal has an Empire-wide reputation.

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