Show control I 1 I 1 L rol of rats ka LS up U to ao 71 community comman ity where food and shelter are lacking rodents are chased away prepared by th the e united arta beatea t es department of agriculture definite headway in rat control requires not the mere killing hilling off of bf rats as they tire lire encountered in markets poultry yards homes or wherever they abound but more especially the removal of those conditions that thai are responsible tor for the rats according to the biological survey of the united states department of agriculture shut off food supply rats require food and shelter and where these tire arc lacking they cannot persist modern building construction and sanitation as practiced in our more progressive cities deprive rats of suitable living and breeding places and shut oft off their usual food supply rat blat drooling clauses in local building ordinances and moro choro strict regulations in local sanitary codes including the proper collection and disposal of garbage and the Dreven prevention tion of trash and waste accumulations on private premises will do more to bring about permanent reduction in the number of rats than any other measure hat proofing of new buildings Is entirely practicable and all should be required in all cases it would not be practicable however to require rat proofing q of many of the older buildings As long as this Is true and as long ns as rats are able to obtain a food food supply it will be necessary to destroy them but no real progress in rat control Is possible when the destruction of these pests tf t left to the individual for atlon from surrounding infested premises Is continuous arrangements for thoroughly treating enting tr larger areas are es essential sendal to successful results work together A number of cities working in cooperation with and under tinder the leadership of the biological survey are now awl carrying car on systematic and scientific rat raf control with excellent results this bureau will be glad to assist in planning and in n some cases in currying carrying out operative cooperative co rat control projects the problem of rut control Is one of the community even of the county the state shiite and the nation it Is recognized us as an important world problem for not only do rats destroy millions of dollars worth of valuable foods an and property but they carry filth borne disease wherever they go |