Show PROTECT FOOD FROM V VERMIN AND RODENTS St S. S e 4 1 t m it eZ i Rats Are the Most Destructive Animal In the World Prepared by the tho United States Stated Department of ot Agriculture Insects rats and mice and other hou household pests not only destroy and pollute fo foods ds In In obvIous obvious ways but they ma may also infect them with microorganisms mi mi- mi organ cro organisms isms dangerous to health The rat has been called the most destructive destructive destructive de de- de- de animal In the world partly because It spreads bubonic plague and the common house fly fully deserves deserves de de- serves the epithet typhoid fever fly and is also a known carrier of ot the tile bacterIa bacteria bac bac- teria terla of cholera dysentery and tuber tuber- Even the so-called so fly flyspecks flyspecks specks often deposited on food tood and dishes may be Infected with disease germs and the eggs of dangerous para pam sl sites tes Methods of Control Methods of ot exterminating or controlling controlling con con- trolling rats and mice files flies ants and other household insects that damage foods are given In various bulletins issued by the United States Department Department Depart Depart- ment of Agriculture Food more than anything else draws these pests to a ahouse ahouse ahouse house and their visits are at least last discouraged by keeping supplies covered covered cov coy ered or in closed containers contaIners' and by disposing of garbage promptly In a new Farmers Farmers' Bulletin 1374 Care of ot Food in the Home attention attention atten atten- tion Is called to the need for storing food In such a way that Insects rodents rodents ro roo ro- ro dents and pet animals cannot reach It Fly Most Dreaded Sometimes in spite of all nIL the housekeepers housekeeper's house house- housekeepers housekeeper's keepers keeper's precautions w or worms develop quickly in apparently sound cereal products drIed vegetables and r fruits or nuts In reality these p pesta t come from minute eggs Insects either in or upon upon oi I Iother other seeds cm CI ln the flour material Itself or or In the crevices crevices' of the r container used In n storage Such infested f food fod od mate materials should be destroyed and the the contaIners containers containers con con- thoroughly jv Washed and scalded before a new supply is stored |