Show REDUCING MOUSE AND RAT DAMAGE Co operation Co-operation operation and Organization Is of Utmost Importance COMMUNITY EFFORT IS BE BEST T I Permanent Results Can Only Be e Obtained Ob Ob- I tamed by Building Animals Out Out of Shelter and Food Food Govern Govern ment Ready to to Help Prepared by tho United States Department Department Depart Depart- ment meat of ot Agriculture The necessity of at operation co-operation and andor or organization In the work of or rat destruction destruction de de- de- de Is of at the utmost Importance To destroy all the animals on the premises of ot a single farmer In a n community community com com- has little permanent value since they fliey are arc soon replaced from nearby near farms If however r the farmers farmers farm farm- I ers of an nn entire township township or 0 county but 6 x 2920 90 In prize money mODey Had ordinary bounties been paid for tor this destruction the tax on the community community would have been about over 1200 Many organizations already formed should be Interested in destroying rats Boards of at trade civic societies and d citizens' citizens associations in towns townsand townsand townsand and fa farmers farmers' and women's clubs in rural communities will find the subject of great Importance Women's municipal municipal mu mu- leagues leagues In several l large cities already have taken up the matter The league In Baltimore recently secured se so- cured Mired appropriations of funds for expenditure expenditure expenditure ex ex- In to fighting mosquitoes files and rats The league In to Boston Doston durIng during dur dur- during ing the past year supported by voluntary voluntary volun volun- voluntary tary contributions for the purpose made n a highly creditable educational campaign against rats Boys' Boys corn clubs the troops of ot boy scouts and similar organizations could do excellent excellent excellent excel excel- lent work worl In rut campaigns State and National Aid Ald To secure permanent results an general campaign for the elimination of rats must aim at nt building the animals ant ani mals out of shelter and food BuildIng BuildIng Build- Build Building Ing reforms depend on municipal ordinances nances notices and legislative e enactments The rhe recent reent plague eradication work I rS i W N I METHOD OF BAITING GUILLOTINE TRAP I I 1 J 1 unite mite In efforts to get rid of ot rats much more lasting results may be at at- It If continued from year to year such uch organized efforts are ver very Community Efforts operative Co-operative efforts to destroy rats Jm hate e taken various forms In different localities In cities clUes municipal cm employees employees em em- h have hate e occasionally ly- ly been set nt at work ork hunting rats from their retreats with at nt least t temporary b benefit IQ to the community Thus In 1904 at Folkestone England a town of pt f about Inhabitants the corporation employees helped by dogs dos In three Hays killed 1045 1645 rats fats Side hunts in which rats are the ani only animals that count In the contest contest con con- test have ha sometimes been organized and successfully carried out At ew New Burlington BUllIngton 0 O. a n rat hunt took place some years jears ago In which each of at the two sides killed over rats the beaten party serving a banquet to the wlm winners ers There Is danger that organized rat hunts will be followed b by long Intervals intervals In In- of ot Indifference and Inaction This may mar be prevented by offering prizes covering a definite period of ot effort Such prizes accomplish more than municipal bounties because they secure n a friendly rivalry which stimulates sUm sUm- the tontE contestants stants to do their utmost utmost ut ut- most to 0 o win In England and some of Its colonies Contests for prizes have been or organized organized organ organ- an- an bcd to promote the destruction atthe of at the English or house sparrow but ninny many of ot the so called sparrow clubs are really sparrow and rat clubs for forthe forthe forthe the destruction of ot both pests Is the avowed owed object of the organizations A sparrow club In Kent England accomplished ac ac- the destruction of sparrows and 1000 rats ruts In three seasons seasons sea sea- sons by the time annual expenditure of at of at the United States Public Health Service In San Francisco Seattle New Orleans and at various places In Hawaii and Porto Rico required such ordinances and laws as well as ns finan finan- financial financial cial aid In Ia prosecuting the work The campaign of at Danish and Swedish organizations or or- for tor t the destruction of ot rats had bad the help of ot governmental The legislatures of ot California Call Cali fornia Texas Indiana and Hawaii have hin-e In recent years passed laws or made alt appropriations it rop lat to al aid I In rat t rid rid- rId dance ance It Is probable that well or efforts of ot communities would soon soon win legislative support every every- where Communities should not Dol postpone postpone post post- pone efforts however while waiting for tor legislative operation co-operation but should at nt once organize and ond begin repressive l e operations Wherever health Is threatened threatened threatened threat threat- ened the public health service of ot the United States can cnn operate co and where crops and other products are endangered the bureau of at biological sunE survey of ot the department of at agriculture agriculture ture Is ready rendy to assist by advice and andIn andin In demonstration of ot methods |