Show Poison and Gas Snuff Lives of Rodent Hordes On Edge Edge- of Ogden M P rl Y i r rr S s iS r Y i y ys The DIe photograph shoos s a few of the hundred of rodents that carne to the surface when 1 the o was n-as n forced fol into their burrows 1105 The gas gun Is b shown In ht the anti ot of inspector In Marsh AGRICULTURAL INSPECTOR INSPECTOR IN- IN INSPECTOR DISTRICT MARSH plated during the past week the therole th rol role of ot th the the- Pled Pied Pled Piper with the tho result has been cleared of thousands of rats which had hOod In- In Inies In Infested ies Tested d the city dumps and In many cases spread to nearby homes Instead of ot using the strains from fromn from froma n a flute to lure the rodents to their death death Inspector Marsh was las armed with the latest weapon poison poison and gas as Inspector Marsh took over the tho duties of th the Pled Pied Mon Mon- Monday Monday Monday day attar after aft r complaints had been bad been re- re re received that rats swarmed the dump on west Thirty third street near the Weber eber river Not ani only was the dump teeming with the carrying disease carrying se rats but the tho neighborhood across the railroad tracks was as being Infested B I He lie made a preliminary survey of the situation and discovered what ho he believed to have haye been the greatest Infestation of ot rats In ina ina a 0 given glnn area In the history of Ogden n Estimates on the number wore purely guess work but there must have hae been more than he declared AI Automobiles which passed the dump at night ran them down In Inthe inthe Inthe the roadway road as they scampered toward safety Motorists said that they ran in la waves naves across the high highway w way The dump itself was n-as as honey honey- honeycombed honeycombed combed combe l with Voles holes holes where the rats sl pt and and raised their young They sallied forth only at night to pick their food tood from the garbage de dc deposited posited d during the daytime With Ith tin cans cans pl pieces ces of at stove-pipe stove and an another d other rubbish It was a rat para pars d dise paradise Ise Inspector Marsh started his firs first t offensive e against the rat army when ho he mixed l up up thirty quails qU lI ts of or rolled oat with a 0 deadly poison polson This he sprinkled around the tho holes holts That night the rats rata Ila had l gobbled up every particle of the poisoned food and It was estimated that hundreds hundred died underground The tempting bait wis wi was s compose composed l of the rolled oats coaled coated with strychnine carrying carr two two ounces of oC the poison polson to each sixteen Quarts ot of oats pats With Ith this percentage tage of of poison polson only a small amount amount- of the foo food l needs to be bo eaten to cause almost immediate death It is the nature of ot all rodents upon feeling felIng the Ule effects of ot strychnine strychnine strychnine nine poisoning to Immediately rl- rl return re return turn to their th lr burrows barrows b So the following morning there thero were few tew dead rats above ground However when It is estimated that but five per er cent of ot the rats that die by poison ute ore ever seen above ground and Mr Ir Marsh pick pick- picked picked picked ed nearly dead ones on Tues Tuesday slaughter da day some estimate of the ter underground can be made GAS S IS USED On Thursday experiments were carried on with acid gas Then the fun began This solution in the form torm of ot powder was forced into the tho many holes with a hand-blower hand The powder carried the gas as fumes down Into the ground and within a few tew min min- minutes minutes minutes utes the smoky vapor was waa coming from scores of holes Then came the deluge of or rats Those that dl did l not escape Instant death from the gas gag came lumping jumping from the holey holl h in swarms They had lad no fear of a man So Intense was waa their pain that per per- persons per persona sona sons on the tho had to keep to moving moving- to avoid a a possible bite on the ankle On n all sides the rats came from from the holes for tor fresh air But Dut thc deadly gas gaa had done its work ork They stood upon their hind bind legs and scratched at ot their eyes ces and mouth They ran ran- ran about as it If pla pia tag and d series of somersaults Some ha had l Inhale Inhaled but a light mixture and were at attacked at- at attacked tacked with clubs and killed But the majority of them after ca- ca capering ca capering peeing about for two or three minutes dropped over dead For a 0 halt hour they continued to come from the hole holds a In lessening les- les lessening les lessening numbers until only three or tou four r In which life still remain remain- remained remained ed could be seen moving a about out I The ground round was strewn strewn with 1111 their bo bodies ies and they were gath gath- gathered gath- gath gathered gathered ered up for burial m It Is believed that this dump Is Isnow isnow Isnow now practically free tree from rats The gas aB kills the young ones olles In nests below the tho ground and Ing was practically eliminated The destruction oc of at least 10 10 will rats have ha have a great bearing all on the reductions of the tho which have naturally been pro pro- pro produced Ogden and scattered red through Og- Og Og den and vicinity During this week welt Mr Ir Marsh will IU visit other dumps Ogden near Og- Og Og den and the Urea Hell Uve ot of thousands more more will be snuffed out |