iv THE JOURNAL OF THE MINISTRY OP AGmOXJhTmE.— Advertisements 



TO 



DAIRY FARMERS. 



Offers of COOL, CLEAN MILK, for their 

 Town and Country Depots delivered at 

 Liverpool Street, King's Cross, St. Pancras, 

 Euston, Southend and Gravesend Stations, 

 are invited by 



ABBOTT BROS. DAIRIES. 



ESTABLISHED 1786. 



Head Office: GRENADE ST., LONDON, E.14. 



Phone: East 4628. 



Tel.: "Creameries, phone, London, 



Payments made fortnightly or as required. 



The Farmer's Costly Guest 



The Wages the Rat Extorts. 



Farmers' and agriculturists' indignation is aroused 

 by the announcement that rats are causing damage 

 to the extent of over one million pounds per annum 

 in the British Isles on farms alone. 



In our huge granaries, stores, and provision shops, as 

 well as on board nearly every cargo vessel, scores of 

 millions of rats are nibbling and gnawing 

 at food stores. 



Every day thousands of rats are added to 

 the hordes that are continually gnawing at 

 the heart of the nation, and at the present 

 moment there are probably over 50 million 

 rats in the British Isles alone. 

 They are everyAvhere, nibbling not only 

 grain, but cheese, butter, eggs, fowls and 

 meat, and also gnaAving and utterly de- 

 strojdng textiles and clothing and damag- 

 inj^ thousands of pounds worth of property. 



The only means to employ that will ensure 

 a wholesale destruction is the use of a 

 disease-producing germ such as has Ijeeii 

 proved effective in innumerable tests made at theEun- 

 corn Laboratories of Evans Sons Lescher & Webb Ltd. 



These germs or disease-producing bacteria are knoAvn 

 as the "Liverpool" Virus for Rats and Mice, pro- 

 duced by Evans Sons Lescher k Webb Ltd. It is 

 virulent and particularly active, and Avhen infection 



is introduced amongst a colony of rats by applying 

 the Virus to suitable bait, the Avhole colony is affected 

 and exterminated,* the rats communicating a fatal 

 intestinal disease to one another and in most cases 

 being speedily obliterated. The Virus has no effect 

 upon human beings or domestic animals, and the 

 disease produced is of a nature that com- 

 pels the rats or mice to come into the open 

 air to die, thus causing no unpleasant smells. 



" LiA'erpool " Virus for Eats is supplied 

 on bait ready for use in 2/6 and 6/- tins, 

 for Mice in 1/6 tins. In this form the 

 Virus involves no trouble in use, it can, 

 hoAvever, be obtained Avithout bait if 

 required, in 2/6 and 8/- tubes for Eats, 

 and 1/6 tubes for Mice. 



EA^ans Sons Lescher and Webb Ltd., 

 56, Hanover Street, Livei-pool, will supply 

 at the above prices, postage paid, and 

 Avill gladly adAdse any large users or 

 institutions on any matter connected Avith 

 the extermination of rodents, and Avelcome corres- 

 pondence as to procedure in special circumstances. 



The Virus may also be obtained ' from Chemists. 

 " LiA'erpool " Virus is not a poison and therefore 

 overcomes the acknoAvledged difficulty with other 

 exterminators. 



