East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-07-24

The greatest and most generally
,despised pest hereabouts nowadnys
is the little house fly. He's uncom-
monty plentiful this summer, and he's
mere, there and everywhere at the
same time and all the screen doors
and windows seem to be powerless in
keeping him out of ones house or
place of business. He can do mora
cussedness on a real warm day, how
ever, than at any other time, that's
why the blankety blank little, many
legged insect has so many more enc
mics at this time of year.
The assistant entomologist of the
Washington State Agricultural college
has made Il study of this fly and he
has written the following on the sub
ject, which may be good information
for our readers:
Il find the house fly very abundant
mere. There is no excuse Tor it's prev
alence in such large numbers. If the
keepers of livery barns and the own
ers of horses would look after the
proper disposition of the refuse from
their barns there would be very few
house flies to bother the people. Care
lessness is the cause of the house fly
spreading
II want to suggest a remedy for
keeping the flies down to a minimum
number 1t will work If the people
will cooperate with each other in the
effort What is needed is to take
care of the offal from the stables. It
Is in this matter that your house fly
breeds. A careful livery man and
other stable keeper should have boxes
to place this offal in after taking 1t
out of the barns. \ little chloride of
lime on an open box will effectually
knock out the flies.
THE little fly that bothers you at
meal time is direct from the maggot
hat comes from the egg that is laid
Ny the lod fly in the manure pile.
The egg matches in five hours after
t has been deposited. The maggot
ives about five days in the manure
md then comes forth as the house
'ly. This fly carries with n n large
lmount of filth from its breeding
place.
multiplication of the house fly. The
'ex is about evenly divided Each
'emale lays 1870 eggs. These hatch
nut in five hours under proper con-
litions. One-half of this first brood
ire females, or so. These so females
zach lay 120 eggs or total of 72OU
or the second generation. Take one
half of this number or $500. as fe-
males and multiply again by 100 and
1ou have $4,000 flies In the third
generation from one fly. Then go
through the same process for the Is
Or 20 generation in season and YOU
can easily find out how many flies
YOU have had in a season. In the
fourth generation you have 22,032, 900
flies, Think OF It,
"a little care on the part of the
people would keep down the flies.
The first fly in the spring is the one
that has hibernated through the win
ter II we could get all the flies
that lie dormant in the house sticking
up in some corner we might get rid
of the fly entirely. But that seems
to be impossible. My advice is for
your health officer to get after the
livery keepers and make them keen
their barns clean. After they are
cleaned out little chloride OF lime
thrown around will be effective.
'I visited one of the barns recently
| found the flies so bad that hesi-
tated about going into it. I said to
the liveryman, Why don't you take
steps to prevent the flies breeding p
He said he had tried everything but
could not get rid of them. I told him
he had not tried the right remedy. 7
picked up a fork and went to a ma
nure pile and turned some of It over
If there was one there were a million
maggots in that manure pile. said:
Here is the place to get after them
Carry the manure out to your dump
ing ground and place chloride Of lime