Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-02-22
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Pied Piper Gets
Rid 0fRatS

piker at rat-killng compared with j. f. Gerry of
! Buffalo. York While the mythical rodent
Hamelin Town rounded up the and ed
them to their watcry doom with weird, entcing music
Gerry INDUCES IN such nonsense. His technique IS
modern and streamined
Gerry who is regarded as the nations crack rat
terminator. travels all the United States telling
faHary owners farmers warehouseHeR and shopkeepers
no" 10 get md OF the pests By studying the life habits
Of rats Cory has been able devise OF ways
10 KIN Them Oft by the hundreds OF thousands
This modern Pred Piper regards his cxtcrnnat0E
work highly important. for he points out tho rat
is responsible for untimcly deaths among human
beings than all the history The rodent
the dread bubonc plague and dozens Of other Diseases
Besides being menace TO human life the property it
destroys in this country is valued by the United states
Government S20oOooO0O annually
Gerry studying rodent life discovered that rats have
a Language" of their
Il have seen them stand up and talk to each other
with signs" he says The leader o he
group II she is caught a trap viii Try O
rescue her but she viii try the
tfest circumstances learned tot
10y placing female trap She will be surrounded
by rats trying TO get her out"
What amazes Gerry about their strength
The amount Of food colony rats VIII carry away and
store for future Use is almost unbelievable In Gloucester
Massachusetts, he reported finding five pound can II
beef that had been carried from kitchen to the attic
OF the same house and hidden under the caves At Fort
Wayne Indiana Gerry found where had hIrrow,d
through l6nch cement wall 70 reach Tho other
side a close examination tho
have been bored more efficiently with steel driL
one Of the oldest traits OF in Gcrrys opinion
the way they disnhcrt their young the offspring
t4t the young rats are gone for more than hour
the elders viii drive when they seek to return
The brown rat he reported year
ana produces an average OF 10 young 20 litter Young
females breed when only three four months old At
ths rate pair could at O three years
have produced 3597094s2 young
Pats have found means Of supplying thcrn-
solves tn fresh meat Gerry rccounted In Erltry
which ~ coarse is infested with mice well lie
rats have been known keep these imprisoned
BRING them green food TO eat The mice could get plenty
Of grain and with this added green stuff they produced
bigger and fatter young mice and the rats apparently
know il In the Winter when other rations scarce the
then feed a these Sat mice
The rat, Gerry's opinion hasn't single rcdccning
feature HIS dark plotted In dark corners and
carried ont mostly in dark places He satisfied
getting enough TO eat FOR when ne all he wants
viii destroy the rest Just for the fun of H. And because
Of his fonncss for lurking other filthy
spots the rat is carrier Of typhoid fever and other
diseases
pair rats and their rapidly multiplying Off
spring can do an amazing amount Of damage in year
According the United and Wllfe Service,
rats annually destroy much food 100000 farmers
produce.
Despite their all their undesirable
features 70 have strong family affections To
illustrate this point Gerry explained that recently while
discriminating n a storcholse IN Wayne Indiana
upon pair lying dead male and a female
IN sofcircie around them we're grouped their little ones
dead bat lying the attitude of abject
despair if they had actually grieved to death the
loss Of their parents.
There are scores ways exterminate rats the
use of rcd sqHl poison is considered the most effective
Gerry other exterminating experts dcudcd
believe cheese the best kind OF bait Tests
show that prefer hamburg steak, peanut butter.
bana Get chocolate eggs.
Recently Massachusetts farmers devised simple but
clever trick killing They filled steel barrels
within foot Of the top with grain Then, they obg
ingly put plank up against the side of the barrel
make easy for tho rats to get square meal
After "A days, the rats followed by OF their
hcnchmon became that when they made their
nightly foay they right up the board and plunged
into the the third day, the farmers scooped
grain and filled the barrels with water that had
just bit of floating mash top The rats who to
ducs ST. 10