Show 0 COMBAT PLAGUE OF RATS bildings ull uIl dings must be constructed that will exclude the pests from shelter and food A single rat remarks david E lantz i a recent pub publication on of the united lates bates department of agriculture does ir less harm in a year than any one an tiger or wolf but the big animals prey lire are few while rats are deflor ly abundant there are possibly two three times as many rats as there e people in the civilized world and is destruction wrought by this vast rde of voracious rodents Is far great than that wrought by wolves tigers id all other noxious animals to ther to combat tills this dangerous pest fully esya laitz laibitz Is larg largely ely a build g problem buildings should be so instructed as to exclude the animals ona om shelter and food when this Is tie me individual and commini community ty effo efforts tz destroy rats will give satisfactory id lasting results the program mav ma regarded by many as too expensive 01 it be too costly what do rats gt now it if halt half the money now lent ent in feeding and lighting fighting rats could i expended in wisely planned and anc ell executed operative cooperative co extorts elT orts for t repression it would be possible thin a few years nearly to rid the antry of its worst arth animal rial pest to reice losses from its depredations by least 80 90 per cent and to free tho the rid nd completely from the tear fear of bu inic plague |