Death to the Rodents. 



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farmers in localities where these campaigns were conducted. 

 Owing to the high price prevailing for skins, a large num- 

 ber from the killed animals were cured and marketed. In 

 many instances the carcasses of rabbits killed in drives were 

 also collected and shipped to city markets to be disposed of 

 for human consumption. In other cases they were utilized 

 as feed for poultry and swine. 



BISI7M 



Si line "<;<io<1 " Rats from a City Market. 



Hats are notorious destroyers of food products in all stages, from the plant 

 ing of the fields to harvest, storage, or use on the farm, in transit to market, 

 at terminal elevators, mills, :ind warehouses, at the distributing points, and in 

 the pantry of the ultimate purchaser. They not only destroy hut contaminate 

 and pollute food products with filth and disease-producing organisms. The rat 

 has been designated as "the most destructive animal in the world" and it 

 fully deserves this invidious distinction. Tt has no redeeming traits to com- 

 pensate for its disgusting depredations. Starvation, poison, trap, and exclu 

 sion should be its portion everywhere. 



Thirty Thousand Rnt Tails. 



The Biological Survey has developed effective, practical, 

 and economical measures for the control of bouse rats and 

 mice, introduced pests which annually destroy $200.0()0,000 

 worth of crops and stored products in the United States. 

 This sum does not take into account the large amounts ex- 

 pended in efforts to combat them. Recommended methods of 



