Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1908-06-17

time they emerge as full grown flies, ready
to mate and lay eggs within twenty -four
hours.
Altogether it Will be seen the cycle
takes at least seven TO ten days and
frequently fifteen to twenty. So that, If
these accumulations of filth are removed.
either 10 be destroyed or deposited where
they will not be source of danger TO
dwellings every week or ten days, there
is little danger of the fly being able 10
continue its racial existence
As matter of additional precaution.
however, ii would be well to sprinkle the
boxes or vaults in which stable manure
Is allowed 70 accumulate and the ground
where garbage cans stand with solution
OF arsenic, about two teaspoonfuls to the
gallon. This will prevent the develop
meut Of amy eggs which NAV have been
left behind in the cracks of the boards or
/ in the soil soaked hv garbage. Garbage
cans must, Of course. also be scaided out
thoroughly nj least once a week. and the
addition of little coal oil, crude petrol
cum or creosote will make the cleaning
more effective and act aS an additional
discourager Of both the Matching and the
deposition of eggs.
jCONCRETE examples Of how far be-
II low these fly preventing requirements
| some great aud progressive cities like
New York may fall-indeed of ideal CON
/ ditions for its "increaSe aud multiplied
/ tion"-are furnished by the following rec
ords Of one days observations made by
the SCOUTS of the New York committee
! this spring They do not make the most
! pleasant reading, but the facts which
/ they detail must he recognized by the
Ipuhlic if the crusade against dirt and
disease is to be successful Here are a few
( Of the eases selected almost at random.
/ They might lie duplicated by almost any
competent observer in dozens Of quarters
( of New YorR or other cities OF the
country.
/ On the east and west sides are hun
4 dreds of small and cheap restaurants.
whose patrons are of course less fastidi-
Gus than those of the Broadway and
Fifth avenue hotels. We can make a
good deal of allowance for the difference
in standards. but when. rs in the case Of
a lunch room the surroundings Of which
were inspected, we find it separated only
by wooden fence from Il stable yard lit
tered with rubbish and Glth and learn that
the stable has no drainage. the thought
of the very short circuit which the flies
bred in and feeding npon that filth have
/ to take before settling upon the restau-
rants pies and cakes Is disquietiug. to
say the least. And another dangerous
and disgusting feature Of this proximity
/ is found in the fact that this stable yard
like many similarly located. is practically
a public comfort station.
In Pearl Street is hockey -pokey" Ice
cream factory where the street nrchin
favorite dclicacy is prepared on the same
iloor and within arms length OF the horse
stabbed IN the building, with no partition
( 10 serve as even partial screen from the
/ flies and contaminating matter.
The occupants Of the great markets are
! frequent Offenders The barrels of fish
heads and eItrails and heaps Of chicken
feathers and droppings found In their
/ neighborhood will attract vast numbers
Of flies later IN the season, If such NUS