We never had more than an occasional rat on the farm when I was growing up.
The summer of 1972 was rainy, we never got in a single bale of hay that wasn't rained on. The next winter we got a truckload of grain through some sort of government aid program.
I don't know if the rats were delivered with the grain, or if they followed the truck up the road, but all of a sudden we were overrun with them.
We tried all the usual remedies, plaster and cornmeal, De-Con, shooting, but they kept getting worse.
One morning I went to the barn to do chores, and I saw a white weasel slinking along the cellar wall. Within a week there wasn't a rat to be found anywhere. The weasel must have gotten a bunch of them, and the rest got the heck out of Dodge.
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Today's Featured Article - The Nuts and Bolts of Fasteners - Part 2 - by Curtis Von Fange. In our previous article we discussed capscrews, bolts, and nuts along with their relative hardness and thread sizes. In this segment we will finish up on our fasteners and then work with ways to keep them from loosening up in the field. Capscrews, bolts and nuts are not the only means of holding two parts together. When dealing with thinner metals like sheet tin, a long bolt and
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