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Show DISPOSING j OF THE RATS Issuing a bulletin on how to get rid of nts, a local insurance company j offers the following advice: ! Rate live in sewers, manure piles, I and every filthy place. In order to get food, they leave these places and enter your homes and pantries, carrying with them all manner of dirt and disease. The number of rats in the United States is equal to the number of per-pons per-pons In cities and average about fie j rats to each person in country dls- j trict. Rats not only destroy property but they carry disease germs in their fur. One of the worst diseases known, the Bubonic plague, is carried by rats, j This disease causes frightful epl- j! demies, In which eighty people out of j every one hundred attacked die. In the past, It has caused millions of deaths. The disease can be prevented I by destroying the rats. I To keep rata out of your house, you 1 should stop up all holes that will ad- t mtt them. The best material to use I in cellars is cement This should bo placed In the opening around sewer, j gas, and water pipes. Other rat holes j! should be covered with wire screening I or pieces of metal. The screening or 1 metal should be nailed securely over j the holes so that the rats will not be 1 shl to work their way out Basement windows and roof sky-. lights should be covered with wire screening, twelve gauge by one-hnir Inch mesh. If you keep rats out. they will be deprived of your food and a place to rear their oung. These are two reasons rea-sons why they enter your home. If any rats are already In your home, kill them as soon as possible, j It is best not to use poison, for any poison that will kill a rat may also kill cats, dogs, and even children Pol- son Is dangerous. The safest and best way to kill rats Is to trap them. The snap and guillo tine traps are recommended as being the best A campaign against the rat is being1 planned in Ogden which will begin with a clean up and disposal of gar bage. and be followed by th- United States government sending in an ex pert to conduct a systematic poisoning j of the rodents. oo |