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76TH YZAR.
CHRISTIANSIED.
V.I.U
S.
A
SATURDAY
26tTH
MARCH
1921.
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when the same
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e
RR
e
SCIENTIFIC
EXTERMINATION OF
RATS
AND MICE
VERY
IMPORTANT
TO
ALL
WHO
ARE
TROUBLED BY RATS AND MICE
THE
RATIN
SYSTEM
The rational extermination of Rats
and
Mice—so
highly
injurious
to
materiai
value and health—is
a mager
of general
interest.
The damage
and :conomic
loss
caused
by
Rats
are
very
considerable
indeed,
for
the
City
of
New
York
alcne
the
damage
is
calculated
at
$35,000,000
a
year.
t
laking
another
example,
assuming
that
there
are
at
the least 50,000
Rats
in St. Croix (at a conservaiive
es.imate)
it
will
be
seen
by
a simple caleulation
that
these
Rodents
must
spoil
and eat
food
to
tne value of $500.00
a day at
lec.
pr. Rat—besides
considerable
damage
to
buildings
ete.—
.
In
adddition
hereto
the
Rats
have
proved
to be
the principal
agents
in the
dissemination
of
both
Bubonic
Plague
and
Thrichinosis
and
they
play
an im-
portant
part
in the spreading
of Tuber-
culosis (also poultry Tuberculosis)
as well
as foot and mouth
disease
and other
con-
tagious
diseases,
:
Another serious aspect
of
the rat
trou-
bie is their enormous
fecundity.
The
progeny
of
one
pair
of
Rats
amounts
-to no fewer
than
800
a
year—-
and
realizing the
great
cupning
of
the
rat
as
well
as
its
migratory
habits,
it
will be evident that no complete
extermi-
nation
of these Rodents
will ever
be
ac-
compished
by means of traps or
poisons
ete.
Seientists
endeavored
to
discover
a
p 2paration
which
should
possess
the
No. 68.
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EFOREGE
FOR RED BLOOD, STRENGH
#AND ENDURANCE
2
following essential
characteristies:
1.
Harmless
to Human beings
and
do-
mestic
animals.
2.
Capable
of affect ng
a whole
colony
of rats.
3.
It should
be a good hait—readily
eat-
en and liked by the Rodents.
4.
Easy
to prepare
and
use.
A well know Nanish Bacteriologist and
Seientist
discovered
a
Bacilla
in
1903,
the eulture
of
which,
in
the form
of
a
preparation,
now
well known
as
“"RA-
TIN?”’, is harmless
to human
beings
and
domestic
animals
and
has
been
proven
to answer
the other
requirements.
The bacterial
culture
"‘RATIN’’ caus-
es
coniagwus
and
mortal
disease
in
rats,
and
the baits
prepared
with it
are
eaten
freely
even
greedily
by
the
ro-
dentcs,
the baits
are
prepared
simply
by
pouring
the
Ratin
:culture
over
White
Bread.
The
Ratin
bactertal
culture
is
there-
fore
the
best,
the most reliable ard sci-
entific remedy
to adopt
for
the
exter-
mination of Rats
and
Mice,
Further
information
about
“"RATIN”
can
be had
at
Frederiksted
Apothecary
Hall.
Musical Service.
Friedensthal
Moravian
Ghurch
Sunday
Evening 27th inst.
7.30 o’clock.
ALL INVITED.
Silver offering at the door.
W. ALLEN.
DISTRIBUTORS:
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RE"
ORT
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{
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On Saturday the 19th March.
1921
RECEIVERS:
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A. E.
STAKEMANN
Trustee.
In Frederiksted
R.
&. HiGGINs
°©
Trustee.
Balance
of deposits
to
12th March
1921
§
923811.12
23 Deposits,
of which
1] in Christiansted
$ 1567.60
(2 new)
12 in Frederiksted
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(3 new)
$
300.85
$92,611.97
10 withdrawals
of which
-
6in Christiansted
$
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$
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Balance
of deposits
to date
$ 92,500.97
Receivers for Saturday
the 26’ March 1921
n Christiansted
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STAKEMANN
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