Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1910-06-29

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Clean up your premises lnsloe ano
out and then, as much as you can
sae tnat others do the same.
STRIKE at the root of the evil The
houseay breeds in horse manure
kitchen offal and the like. DISPOSE OF
these materials in such way thsar
the nousefy cannot propagate. Screen
oil windows and doors and insist that
YOUR grocer, butcher, baker ana
everyone from whom you buy food
stuffs does the same.
There is more health IN Well
screened house than in many a doc
tors visit
After YOU have cleaned up your
own premises inspect the nelghDor-
hood for fy-breeding places. Call the
attention of the owner to them and
if he does not remove them, complains
TO the board of health.
Flies breed in horse manure, de-
caving vegetables, dead animals, and
all Kinds of filth.
Not Less Than 95 Per Cent of the
pests Are Bred in the Stable.
All stables should have a manure
hin with a door at the side and wire
screen on the top, that the larvae de-
nosited in the manure before it was
placed in the nin will be screened
when Matched, and, as flies seer
light and come to TIE top OF the bin,
thew can be easily killed by burning
paper or some other device.
The fly has thirst only equalled
by his hunger; place a dish of poi
soned water in the stable and great
er part of the flies Matched there Will
be killed.
Flies are natures scavengers, full
filling the same function that some
bacteria do, but become an intolerable
nuisance and danger when entering
human dwellings, and by contaminar
ton Of food.
The presence of flies is direct ev-
idence of careless housekeeping and
of the existence of filth in some form
about the premises, and are more
dangerous than the good housekeep-
er's terror found in bed rooms.
Remember that wherever absolute
cleanliness prevails there viii he no
flies. Look after the garbage cssNs-
See that they are cleaned, sprinkled
with lime or kerosene oil, and closely
covered.
Remove all manure from stables
every three or four days, and when
removed keep in tight pit or vault,
SO flies cannot breed in it.
Lye, chloride of lime or blue Wit
riol water, crude carbolic acid, or any
kind of disinfectant may be used.
Keep flies away from the kitchen
Keep flies out of the dining-room and
away from the sick, especially from
those i'll with contagious diseases.
Screen all food. Apply this rule not
only to food prepared at home, but
to foodstuffs offered for sale, and es-
pecially fruits, salads, and all other
Things which do not require to be
cooked.
Prevent consumptives from expect
Grating where flies can feed upon it
How To Kill Flies.
To clear rooms of flies carbolic acio
may be used as follows: Heat shovel
or any similar article and drop thereon
20 drops of carbolic acid The vapor
kills the flies.
A cheap and perfectly reliable fly
poison, one which is not dangerous to
human life, is bichromate of potash
in solution. Dissolve one dram, which
can be bought at any drugstore, ID
two ounces of water, and add little
sugar Put some of this solution in
shallow dishes and distribute them
about the house.
Sticky fy-paper, traps, and liquid
poisons are among the things to use
in killing flies, but the latest, cheap
est and best is solution of formal1n
or formaldehyde in water A spoon
full Of this liquid put into a quarter
Of pint of water and exposed IN
the room will be enough to kill all
the flies.
To quickly clear the room where
there are many flies, burn pyrethrum
powder in the room This stupefies
the flies, when they may be swept
up and burned.
If there are flies in the dining-room
IF your hotel, restaurant or boarding
house, complain to the proprietor that
he premises Nare not clean.