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Title: Control of rats and mice
Identifier: controlofratsmic142stor (find matches)
Year: 1948 (1940s)
Authors: Storer, Tracy I. (Tracy Irwin), 1889-1973
Subjects: Rats; Mice
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : College of Agriculture, University of California
Contributing Library: University of California, Davis Libraries
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The chimney should be capped tightly with hardware cloth of 1/3- or 1/4-inch mesh. Loose shingles or shakes must be fastened down, and all crevices between boards covered with battens, well nailed. Sheet tin or hardware cloth serves to cover cracks or holes wider than 1/3 inch. Ir- regular crevices may be wedged with folded strips of fly screen. Pipes entering Strychnine-coated grain sometimes will serve for control, but may be refused by the mice. If the owner cannot control these mice by the methods described, he should get help from some government agency (p.3). Dead mice in mountain cabins should be carefully handled to avoid the chance of live fleas or ticks getting on to a per-
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Fig. 17.—The wood rat, or pack rat (Neotoma). Its head-and-body length is 7 to 8 inches and the tail 6I/2 to IVi inches. The fur is soft, the upper surface is warm brown (bluish gray in young), the ears are large and scantily haired, the nose is blunt, and the tail is hairy. walls or floors should be surrounded by metal collars (fig. 7). Bedding, mattresses, and clothing not in use in summer, or stored during the winter, are safe only in a tight closet lined with sheet metal or hardware cloth. All foods should be in tightly covered containers of metal, glass, or crockery, or in cabinets fully lined with metal. Killing of white-footed mice in build- ings is best done with mouse traps, using a number of traps and persisting until all are caught. Rolled oats make good bait, but other foods should be tried if neces- sary. Some owners leave a number of traps baited and set when closing their buildings for the winter. Dusting the floor with napthalene flakes or sulfur is reported to reduce mouse damage. son's clothes or skin. Gloves should be worn, and the clothing sprayed with a pyrethrum spray immediately after pick- ing up any mice. The dead rodents should be completely burned, out-of-doors, or buried to a depth of 2 feet. WOOD RATS The native wood rats, commonly known as "pack rats" or "trade rats," are sometimes a nuisance in homes, summer cabins, and other buildings outside cities and towns. Exclusion and trapping are the best means of control. The brown-footed wood rat (Neotoma juscipes, fig. 17) of the foothills and lower mountains, has a head-and-body (35

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