1 FEBRUARY 1930, Page 21

RATS AND MICE NUISANCE.

Circumstances have this year prevented my taking an active interest in " Rat Week," but the subject is so important that perhaps your kindness will allow me, as a householder, to say a belated word to brother-householders. There is, one simple remedy, apart from poisons. traps, or any other cruelty. See to it that any receptacle for food refuse is covered, effec- tually covered, after dark, which is the time when the rodents are most active. By this simple precaution I have known country houses that were infested with rats cleared in six months, and the same thing. has happened. in London houses overrun with mice where now a mouse is as rare as a mosquito.—A. C. E., Cliveden Place, S.W. 1.