Show TO TO TO COMBAT PLAGUE OF RATS RATS I Buildings Must Be Constructed That That I Will Exclude the Pests From j Shelter and Food i 1 1 A sl single gle rat rat remarks David E E. Lantz 1 i I ih a recent publication of the United tates department of agriculture does doe t tf f til far lion less harm In a year than any any anyone one j 15 1 lion tiger or wolf but the big of prey are few while rats are are re deplorably deplorably ably abundant There are possibly two or three times as many rats rats' as ls' ls there f fare are aie people In the civilized w world Id i-Id and nd f the destruction wrought by br this vast horde of voracious rodents Is far greater great great- le r er than that wrought by wolves tigers and all Other noxious animals toge to to- ge gether el rs To combat t this his dangerous an ero pest su successfully sue suc says Lantz Is largely a buildIng build build- Ing lag problem Buildings should b be so 3 constructed as to exclude the animals animals' from shelter and food When tl this s Is 18 done individual and community efforts to destroy rats will give satisfactory and lasting results The program mav may maybe be bo regarded by many as too expensive Will It be too costly What do rats rats rats' cost now If It half halt the money now no pent in feeding and fighting rats could be expended In wisely planned and anel WEll executed w ell executed operative co efforts for fol rat repression it would be possible within a few years nearly to rid the country of Its worst animal pest to tora re reduce duce los losses 8 from Its depredations by at least 90 00 per cent and to free the theland land completely from the fear of bubonic bu bu- bonic plague |