Show HOW TO GET RID OF j RATS IN THE HOUSE c Thorough Cleanliness Discourages Discourages Dis Dis- Dis Presence by the United States Department of ot Agriculture I Thorough cleanliness and orderliness discourage the presence of ot rats and constitute a strong Ince Incentive f for r them to seek other quarters rs To eliminate x food tood and hiding places entirely Is to eliminate rats This Is not always possible pos poe sible Ible but the nearer the approach to this condition the more simple the rat rat- problem becomes I The most Important means of ot i ting food and shelter are to to store foodstuffs In tat tat-p proof rat oot c containers rs to dL dispose of ot waste and garbage In tight- tight jy covered vessels and to o prevent pre tile Uie I accumulation of ot trash refuse and other similar sinh material Not only does l lick lack Ck of ot f food od and shelter reduce the breeding of ot rats but i Increased hunger renders poisoning and trapping more effect effective reo The most efficient means menns known to the department for Id Destroying rats Isby Is bY by poisoning and poison polson Is recommended mended for the purpose wherever where It Itcan J can be used with safety Powdered i barium carbonate Is an nn Inexpensive mineral and seems best adapted for poisoning rats It Is both odorless and tasteless and baits containing It are re readily dlly taken by these pests It also has has' the tIle advantage of ot being sloIn slow in Its action so that rats affected by it u usually have haye time to l leave p l the premises premIses prem prem- 0 s In search of water or to return I to their burrows before they succumb A variety of baits used separately not only gi gives gies es the time rat a choice of foods r t but tends to make It less suspicious One kind of each of ot the following classes of food mixed with Ith barium carbonate carbonate car car- bonate Is recommended 1 Meat leat or other animal substance Hamburg burg ste steak k sausage fish liver ll 2 bacon or cheese 2 Vegetables and Thin Thin dices Elices of muskmelon apple tomato c or or cucumber canned corn or squash or pumpkin n seed or mashed banana 4 boiled carrot or baked sweet potato 1 3 3 Cereals Rolled Cereals Rolled oats bread brend corn cornmeal cornmeal meal flour or cake Kitchen scraps and nd garbage can be worked Into the ration to advantage ad Baits should be fresh rind and preferably of good quality The powdered barium carbO carbonate should bould be thoroughly thorough y mixed and worked into he the soft baits balts in the proportion pro pro- portion of 1 i part part of the mineral to 4 Ip parts part 01 of f the s selected food Add water when necessary to make the tile baits balts moist Baits m moistened tto to the consistency consistency consist consist- ency ncy of of a soft mush mus are re 1 a acceptable to rats In dry diy weather I Barium carbonate should be be sifted I over o sliced baits and rubbed well Into them nith the fingers or a knife The BU slices n and and ld U moistened if ne r rm m to attain attala at at- I tain tala as ns nearly as possible the 1 to to 4 ratio Soft baits bilts may be mixed with the hands or oJ orith wIth ith a spoon 4 A teaspoonful or Its equivalent of f I each of r the three three-or three or more more kinds of ot bans baits prepared should be exposed In In places frequented by rats In buildIngs buildIngs build build- Ings baits should be set on strips of paper or boar boards s where tile they may be bet t easily removed A convenient and successful method of exposing baits Is to place a t tea tea- a- a l in Inea ea each h of 01 a 1 number of small T Paper sacks nn and drop them in places accessible to rats or frequented b by them The sacks should be he closed by twisting the top Bait Unit distributed Inthis in this Ms manner serves ser to allay the s suspicion sp don cion of rats and will be tal taken en by them more IDre readily than If exposed in the theop op open n Barium carbonate is is' is isn a n relatively ely Mid mild pol poison on but the dan danger er from dents cannot be be overemphasized o Keep it out of or the reach rench of children and tad Irresponsible persons and from domestic animals and and and- fowls ls j I |