Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1931, Page 38

OLD MARKETS NEED NEW PIED PIPER" 8 Fowler and Agriculture De- partment Have No Funds to Exterminate Rat Cities. Wlntedfl modern “Pled Piper of mAn who induced “great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, brown rats. black rats, tawny rats,” to drown Shamselves in the River Weser ‘would “s welcomed in_the market section in the vicinity of Louisiana avenue south of Pennsylvania avenue, If he could get the rats in buildings in that section to drown themselves in me Potomac River, there are many who ould be thankful Demflhllr‘n of these old market bulld- ings is to begin in April and so far no steps have been taken to exterminate the rats in them. May Seek New Homes. As the rodents are very adept in find- ing new homes, it is felt they will be distributed among other buildings when the old market structures are torn down w makP room for Government building roject P e District health officer, Dr. W. C. Fowler, approached on the subject by @ reporter, said his department has no funds for the work of extermination, but asserted that if any other department wants to poison the rats, they may do 50 if the proper safety precautions are taken to prevelie the poisoning of pet | animals or persons. In the old Center Market proper, the property on the site of which belongs | § to the Department of Agriculture, ex- tensive extermination work .has been done, and few,if any, rats, it is sald, remain on the site, where the work of demolishing. the by is nearly m{,’ leted. The first extermination sion, Biological Survey, Department Al!‘ltul!ure rtsulhed in flndlnz hun- dead ain, al torn down, so the rodents wo cate elsewhere. 282 Caught in One Trap, Mr. Jarvis said, some years ago eaught 282 rats in one trap, placed m |+ one or the hulldmgs for a period of six we ecord cateh, said, 55 ln one nigh! 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