Sin—"Mee-ow," is off the track in thinking that castration of malo eats Weit'reduee the number of the eff pring: On the contrary, if there se'tSo many es the number could more easly. reduced. by. drown the the female kittens and saving the males. Among the mammalia, teat, promitation tends towards feriity. But are. there. too. many Enis? Tne eat is out best means Sembating the rat. 'Trapping may Sctually Increase. the number fa, for, aaa general rule, males fre' more venturesome than females, fud-are thus more liable trapped. On the other hand, cats Usually catch more females than Imales Male rats may even offer to fight. When traps are used for rals, they" shoud be of the. kind. which donot injure' the. rate, Ifa fully fleveloped male rat it" caught, he Shout be "et at tlberty, Ho "is atten one of our allies In destroy= Ingato hey alen is bros St'smali' rats and. ties to" dispel the former mate.
Our problem Is really not how to act rid" of cts, but how to got vid St rate. "The former isa poaceabe, useful animal; the, latler a destroy er of property and plague spread-eats do sometimes keep at nights, they are not even so bad in this respect as rats, Cats Occasionally make a noise at. night, but they do it outside. When start coming into a house they' come every night and into our bedrooms, sometimes into our beds. Since eats. are 90 useful, let us not be-arridge them a concert now and again near our windows.
Nit Nema. Shanghai, July 18,
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