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Show Rats Cost $200,000,000 The average housekeeper of this county may be inclined to di miss the presence of a few mice in the house, and the average farmer may lock upon the rats in his barns as an evil not to be banished but when you think of the enormous loss inflicted upon the people of this country by theie rodents it would seem that everyone would do his or her part to drive these pests away. It is estimated by the U. S. Biological Bio-logical Suivey that rats cause an annual less cf $200,000,000 each year in this country. They do enormous damages in the homes, stores, factories and also ravage the barns on the farms. According to the authorities who have studied the be:t ways to prevent pre-vent this toll temporary measures cf rat c ntrol Include Hie use ol poisons, traps and deadly gases These devices merely eliminate th animals for a bhort lime and e'e not prevent others from reinfestiny premises. Nevertheless, temporal") measures are the firit consideration In dealing with the rat problem Permanent contiol consists primarily primar-ily In depriving rats of trie cr both in their necessities of life lood1 am shelter. "Mt.enl.lon to such community ra IjrccdiiiT place, as garbage dump: and city abatolrs will keep dowi the rat populatlrn," says the surve; in a r"rnl bulleliu. "Every com. mmill.y lnlen::trr In prove: I Inn dis rw,c epidemics that nmy possibly b sprenJ' by i.'it. should nvrko It a point to pr vide f r prtprr main tenancc of dumps and similar place; pla-ce; for garbage and refuse clLs-posa Changes in the construction of buildings can be effected to make them rat-proof, and building codes of cities and towns can require rat proof construction." |