The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1878-07-04

I within the Arctic circle, far beyond
/ the zone OF Migratory Flies and
when 3 missionary or a Polar eX-
I plOreT urges them To seek a warmer
climate, they smile sweetly and
shrewdly, and reply s'NOt any flies
10 ours, II you please"-using, ni
course, the meIiiTlUous Esquimaux
/ language.
Now, when our flies migrate, il Is
I certain thst they DO not 70 north. il
/ Is almost equally certain that they do
/ not go south, 10 the zone OF Perpetual
Flies. In that region the resident
/ flies are already so thick that, were
the files from the north and south
zones OF Migratory Flies TO be added
to them during the Winter months,
/ the atmosphere would become dense
and irresplrable with flies. In short,
the..whole country would be uninhsb-
liable. Persons who live In the zone
OF Perpetual Fies fsiI to notice any
increase or dminutiOu Of the Appar-
ent number Of flies at any season OF
the year, and We may therefore re-
gard it as 3 demonstrated fact that
our flies do not Winter in the equs-
tOrial region.
1t may be suggested that, instead OF
migrating TO any great distance, our
| flies simply withdraw to some Sc
cIuded spot and hibernate. Now, it
Is well known that In the zone Of
Migratory Flies there are usually
from two aId q half to three inches
of lilies during the warm season or,
in other WOpis, were these flies to be
evenly spread over the surface OF the
ground, they would form 3 layer Of
from two and half to three inches
in depth. In what SECLUDED place"
is this enormous quantity OF flies col
lected for the purpose OF Information t?
Has any one ever found them in the
act ? The flies in the boarding houses
of the City Of New York alone
would, ifgsthered together, form a
pyramid with base of 900 square
feet and height OF $50 feet. Will
some one please to suggest the prob
able spot where these flies assemble
and hibernate
But il our flies migrate neither TO
the north, TO the Zsne of Perpetual
Flies, nor to some "seclnded placen
near at hand, with q view to hiberna-
tiOn, where do they go during the
Winter We must not forget that
"Winter" occurs at different times in
different places. North OF the equa-
tor winter occurs in December, Janu-
ary and February. South of the
equator, June, July and August are
the winter months. The small boy
OF Australia has his Christmas skat-
ing In June, and celebrates his Fourth
OF July in January. When, there
fore, IL Is winter in the northern zone
OF Migratory Flies, it Is summer IN
the corresponding southern zone. At
the very time when the flies disap-
pear, the flies Of the southern zone OF
Migratory Flies make their appear
ance. The meaning OF this fact is so
plain that q mere Matthews could
grasp it.
Early In November our flies gather
In swarms upon the heads of our
baldest men, or on the butter-plates
of restaurants, and prepare thGm-
selves for flight. Choosing the night
time, in order to avoid remark, they
wing their flight through the upper
regions of the atmosphere, and pass
ing far above the surface of the zone
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the southern zone of Migratory Flies,
where they pass the warm months.
In May, when the southern weather
grows cool, they retrace their flight
and resppear among us. Thus there
Is seml-annual ebb and flow Of flies
between the two ZOnes-a migration
in comparison with which the migra-
tiOns of birds are trivial and scarcely
OF notice.
Here is q simple solution OF tho fly
problem. It's truth Is self-eYident,
and yet no naturalist has hitherto hit
upon it. II you ask the naturalist
what becomes Of our flies during the
he will first use bad language
in regard to all flies, and will then try
to turn the conversation. It is 8 fine
OF poetic justice that the
naturalist is bald, and that
no matter how much he may neglect
the files, they never neglect him.-M
y. Times.