In 1944, rats were ravaging farms, gnawing into sill beams, eating poultry and eggs and consuming livestock feed. Rats were estimated to destroy $45 worth of food a year, at a time when chicken and livestock feed were hard to come by.
Little Robert De Glopper was made of sturdier stock than children these days, and consequently made himself quite a profit at 3 cents per dead rat. Ten rats an hour would match the minimum wage of 30 cents.
Can you imagine if today’s town clerks had to count rat tails?
War bond prizes were given to the boy or girl who 1) killed the most rats, 2)the heaviest rats, or 3) the ones with the longest tails. Such fun before TV and video games existed! Even dogs and cats were cited for meritorious work.
I Don't Get It 
I’m speechless.
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Like most fauna, if there is an over abundance, just make them human food, value them and open season. That’s the case in many Asian provinces.
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Ew. Just dig a hole and shove them in the ground.
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What an enterprising young lad. I would be curious what he grew up to do. I am with you Kerby. I may be an adventurous eater but I draw the line at rat.
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Now that’s weird.
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http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary/1082913/DeGlopper-John.php
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Looks he was born and died near Easter.
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well now, you cannot say the lad wasn’t bright…after all, he did not succumb to the rat race.
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Wonk wonk!
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Really good gravatar, Kerbey and gruesome post today. 😦 still like your creative posts.
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Thanks. Well, rats were destroying things, so they had to go. I don’t think I would have had the stomach to do it!
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