RATS ROUTED BY GAS ATTACK
Bats living about the farmyard of a home near Eureka Lake, Kansas, were recently given a taste of modern warfare by a representative of the Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture, co-opera-ting with the extension service of the agricultural college, whose time is given to rat-control work and the demonstration of the best means of eliminating this pest. Such delicacies as canned salmon, apples, and fresh eggs served in the half shell, seasoned with barium carbonate, were first rationed out along the known runways and haunts of the rats'. Then came a gas attack for those that had survived. A small hand duster loaded with cal-cium-cyanide dust was used for gassing all the burrows and hiding places. Some of the rats plunged into the dust barrage only to die at the operator's feet. A week later the gas treatment was repeated, and the premises arc now reported free of rats.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1926, Page 6
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158RATS ROUTED BY GAS ATTACK Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 11, 14 January 1926, Page 6
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