The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1901-06-04
uSw ~ Get Ela nt House fist'.
! At,Auta, News, May -.

jus the t,y nuisance. Mr. l.. ..
Ncwsri. eutomolrSist IT the United
Ststas dersrtmeut Of sSrlculture'
sends the following:
The ststle ot the United Ststes
ders,,meut II sSrirU,tare. in which
about twelve horses sre kept, is situ-
atel shout lNN ysriS behind the
msiu building It the department.
AMI shout ~ ysrdS from the build,
ing in which the division Of ento-
molcgy is situated. THIS stsble has
always been very csrAtuly kept.
The msuure hiss been thoroughly |
swept w every moruiUg. csrrled out
side Of the sssble sui deposited in 3
pile behind the building. Ihis pile,
after sccUmulst;ng frr week o. ten
days, or sometimes two weeks, is
carried off Ivy tie gardeners and
spread upon distsut PORTIONS of the
grounds, At all times III the sum
mer this manure pile hiss been swsrm-
ing with the msggots Of the house
fly. 1t is safe to Say thst Oh al sver.
age many thousands cf perfect flies
issued from it ever! day, sud thst 81
least large shsre Of the a;es which
constantly bothered the employees in
the two buildings mentioned came
from this source.
On the basis Of the experiments Of
1897, an attempt was INSIDE, begin.
ming early in April. 1897, to prevent
the breeding of house flies shout the
department by the treatment Of this
manure pile with kerosene, The at
tempt was begun early in April, and
was carried on for some weeks.
While undoubtedly huuireds Of
thousands Of flies were destroyed 10
the course of this work, it was found
by the end of May that it was fsr
from perfect, since used at 81 eco,
monica, rate the kerosene could Tot
be made to penetrate Throughout the
whole pile of manure, even when
copiously washed down with water.
A considerable proportion If house
fly larvae escaped injury from this
treatment, which at the same time
was found, even at an economlcsl
cost, to be laborious, sci such q
measure in fact as a.r4 =. 10 one
could be induced to practical? adopt.
There remained, ho~a7=c, another
measure which has teel suggested
by the writer in an article on the
house fly published in 1885, namely
the preparation Of an especial re.
ceptacle for the manure, aud this
was very readily done. A cl3set 61e
feet had been built in the corner O.
the stable nearest the manure pile
1t had door opening into the stable
proper, and also a window. A doc
was built in the outside wall of thi
closet, and the stablemen were di
rected to place no more manure out
side the building; in other words, t.
abolish the outside manure pile, anc
in the future to throw all OF tn
manure collected each morning int
this closet, the window of which il
the meantime had been furnishe4
with wire screen. The prepara
tions were completed by the middl
OF June, and barrel Of chloride O
lime was put in the corner of tn
closet. Since that time every morn
ing the manure of the stable
thrown into the closet and smal
shovel full of chloride of lime
scattered over it. At the expiration
OF ten days or two weeks the gar
deners open the outside door, shove
the manure into cart and carry
off to be thrown upon the ground.
Judging from actual examination
Of the manure pile, the measure
eminently successful. Very few file
are breeding in tho product Of tn
stable, which formerly gave birth t
many thousands daily. After thi
measure had been carried on for tw
weeks, employees of the department
who had no knowledge of the worl
that was going on were asked wheth
or they had noticed any diminutiol
in the number of flies in their office
Persons in all of the Offices on tn
first floor Of the two buildings wer
| asked this question. In every offic
| aYceDt nna tho opo,uo. xr,, l.L