Having trouble with mice? The library has definitely been dealing with these pesky little rodents lately but mice have been a problem on and off in the area for years and 1970 was one particularly bad year.
According to an article in The Murrumbidgee Irrigator on Wednesday, April 15 1970 the students at Yanco Agricultural High School came up with a novel way to deal with the problem.
In one and a half hours one Sunday they managed to wipe out over 2,000 of the furry critters in a school mouse-a-thon. Run as a house competition, the students set out armed with sticks, boards, pieces of hose, buckets of water and other elaborate weapons to see how many dead mice they could bring back after the allotted time.
The students had already been catching an average of 200 mice per day with tallies being kept in each dorm. The record was held by one of the senior dorms which caught 208 mice in one night.
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