The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1909-06-17
SOME FLY ADVICE.

We are right in fly time and for
the welfare of our farmer readers, we
quote literally from a bulletin of the
Cnlcago School of Sanitary Instruc.
tion. The bulletin says, Chicago is
soon to be invaded by millions of the
dangerous insects known to man.
klno-fies. Now is the time to build
your lines of defense. Prepare TO
nght them as you would wild beasts
seeking your life. Flies are the dirt.
lest' the hlthiest of all vermin. They
are maggots before they are flies.
Ihey are born in filth and carry filth
around with them. Flies are known
10 De the carriers of millions of death
dealing germs and they leave some
OF tnese germs wherever they alight."
The food you eat is a fayorite
rendezvous for them. They come IN
your kitchen, to your lining table 70
the baby's milk and the baby's crib
ihey are fresh from the privy vault,
from the garbage box, from the man.
ure pile, from the cuspidor, from the
contagious sick room or from the de.
cavlng animal or vegetable matter.
WIN this sort Of filth on their feet
n In their bodies, they deposit this
NTH on the food you are to eat. in
the milk your child is to drink or
p~erchance on the baby's lips and what
a slckening thought when it occurs
TO us we must swallow such stuff.
files may infect with tuberculosis.
diptheria, scarlet fever, typhoid, etc,
lnev are carriers direct from the sick
10 the well-and leave their burden
OF disease ON food, clothing and dishes
lor future work of destruction and
Sickness Meats and milk are natural
foods for these disease germs to thrive
upon and are also especially attractive
TO flies. How nicely fly and food and
disease germ work together for orr do.
struction. Small! Yes, mighty small
but mighty numerous too. and like
tne s~rasshoppers. they get the crop.
nave you noticed the restaurant, the
meat shop, the fruit store, the kitch.
en-, the dining table, Why they seem
10 be on the fly, borne on a thousand
wings. We drive them off because we
are AFRAID that they will eat the food
that we want-not because we are
AFRAID to eat the food that they have
befouled. Again we have the cart he.
fore the horse. Well, what are we
going to do? Breeding places every.
where. Flies billions. Rats with The
plague are nothing compared to- the
pest.
Chicago Sanitary School saws:
Screen your windows and doors. DO
IL early before fly time and keep the
screens in place until the snow falls.
Screen all food, especially milk. Keen
nles away from food stuff all the time.
Keep flies away from the sick es.
pecially those i'll with contagious di.
seases." Kill every fly that enters
the sick room. Keep the patients bed
screened and dispose of all discharges.
Catch the flies as fast as they appear.
use sticky fly paper, traps and LIQUID
poisons. A good poison not danger.
Gus to human life is a solution of
bichromate of potash, | dram dissolved
III z ounces of water sweetened with
a little sugar. Put some in shallow
dishes and places throughout the
house. Get it at any drug store. Also
cobalt chloride, one dram i'm three
ounces OF water, used in the same way
as the above. This is more expensive
than the other. To quickly clear a
room of a large number of flies. burn
pyrethriun powder, or blow black flag
into the air of the room. These mere
ly stun the fly, and they fall to the
floor and must be gathered up and
burned or otherwise destroyed. Sprin-
kle chloride of lime or kerosene over
filth piles and places-keep garbage
cans closely covered. Sprinkle cans
with kerosene. Have manure piles
hauled out every week or two. Pour
kerosene into drains, a little on open
water barrels or stagnant pools.
Keep clean, buy only clean goods
from clean places. Refuse goods from
dirty u~nscreened store windows and
outside exposure, and then be consis-
tent and keep them from the flies.
Flies and mosquitoes are as poisonous
as ~rattlesnakes, only in a different
way.
No dirt, no flies. No flies, much less
disease. Less disease-more health
and wealth and happiness.