The journal of the Ministry of Agriculture. (1920) (14778818125)

Identifier: journalofministr2731grea (find matches)
Title: The journal of the Ministry of Agriculture.
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Great Britain. Ministry of Agriculture
Subjects: Agriculture Agriculture
Publisher: London : Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
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at rats are causing damage to the extent ofover one million pounds per annum in the British Isles onfarms alone. In our huge granaries, stores, and provision shops, aswell as on board nearly every cargo vessel, scoresof millions of rats are nibbling and gnawing atour dearly bought and jealously guarded foodstores. Every day thousands of rats are added to thehordes that are continually gnawing at the heartof the nation, and at the present moment thereare probably over 50 million rats in the BritishIsles alone. They are everywhere, nibbling not only grain,but cheese, butter, eggs, fowls, and meat, andalso gnawing and utterly destroying textiles andclothing and damaging thousands of poundsworth of property. The only means to employ that will ensurea wholesale destruction is the use of a disease-producinggerm such as has been proved effective in innumerable testsmade at the Runcorn Laboratories of Evans Sons Lescher& Webb Ltd. These germs or disease-producing bacteria are known as the
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Liverpool Virus for Rats and Mice, produced by Evans SonsLescher & Webb Ltd. It is virulent and particularly active,and when infection is introduced amongst a colony of ratsby applying the Virus to suitable bait, the whole colony isaffected and exterminated, the rats communicating a fatalintestinal disease to one another and in most cases beingspeedily obliterated. The Virus has no effectupon human beings or domestic animals, andthe disease produced is of a nature that compelsthe rats or mice to come into the open air to die,thus causing no unpleasant smells. Liverpool Virus for Rats is supplied on baitready for use in 2/6 and 6/- tins, for Mice in 1/6tins. In this form the Virus involves no troublein use, it can, however, be obtained without baitif required, in 2/6 and 8/- tubes for Rats, and1/6 tubes for Mice. Evans Sons Lescher & Webb, Ltd., 56,Hanover Street, Liverpool, and 60, Bartholo-mew Close, London, E.G. 1, will supply at theabove prices postage paid, and will gladly