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    House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896
    House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896
    House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896
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    House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896

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    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 - David E. Lantz

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      Title: House Rats and Mice

      Farmers' Bulletin 896

      Author: David E. Lantz

      Release Date: March 10, 2011 [EBook #35542]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HOUSE RATS AND MICE ***

      Produced by Erica Pfister-Altschul, Larry B. Harrison and

      the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at

      http://www.pgdp.net

      HOUSE RATS AND MICE

      DAVID E. LANTZ

      Assistant Biologist

      FARMERS’ BULLETIN 896

      UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

      Contribution from the Bureau of Biological Survey

      E. W. NELSON, Chief

      Washington, D. C. October, 1917

      Show this bulletin to a neighbor. Additional copies may be obtained free from the Division of Publications, United States Department of Agriculture

      WASHINGTON: GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1917

      The rat is the worst animal pest in the world.

      From its home among filth it visits dwellings and storerooms to pollute and destroy human food.

      It carries bubonic plague and many other diseases fatal to man and has been responsible for more untimely deaths among human beings than all the wars of history.

      In the United States rats and mice each year destroy crops and other property valued at over $200,000,000.

      This destruction is equivalent to the gross earnings of an army of over 200,000 men.

      On many a farm, if the grain eaten and wasted by rats and mice could be sold, the proceeds would more than pay all the farmer's taxes.

      The common brown rat breeds 6 to 10 times a year and produces an average of 10 young at a litter. Young females breed when only three or four months old.

      At this rate a pair of rats, breeding uninterruptedly and without deaths, would at the end of three years (18 generations) be increased to 359,709,482 individuals.

      For centuries the world has been fighting rats without organization and at the same time has been feeding them and building for them fortresses for concealment. If we are to fight them on equal terms we must deny them food and hiding places. We must organize and unite to rid communities of these pests. The time to begin is now.

      HOUSE RATS AND MICE.

      CONTENTS.

      Page.

      Destructive habits3

      Protection of food and other stores5

      Rat-proof building5

      Keeping food from rats and mice9

      Destroying rats and mice11

      Traps11

      Poisons15

      Domestic animals18

      Fumigation18

      Rat viruses19

      Natural enemies20

      Organized efforts to destroy rats20

      Community efforts21

      State and national aid21

      Important repressive measures23

      DESTRUCTIVE HABITS OF HOUSE RATS AND MICE.

      Losses from depredations of house rats amount to many millions of dollars yearly—to more, in fact, than those from all other injurious mammals combined. The common house mouse[1] and the brown rat[2] (fig. 1), too familiar to need description, are pests in nearly all parts of the country; while two other kinds of house rats, known as the black rat[3] and the roof rat,[4] are found within our borders.

      Fig.

      1.—Brown rat.

      Of these four introduced species—for none is native to America—the brown rat is the

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