The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1910-03-26
GUARD AGAINST
DANGEROUS FLY

| The Sacramento Union gives time.
| ly warning in the following editorial
clipped from its columns. Winnemucca
would do well to heed the advice con-
tanned therein:
This is the season of the year when
the festive little fly makes his appear
ance. Most of us look upon him simply
as a nuisance, who gets in our butter
at dinner and walks over our faces
when we want to sleep. He is that and
much more, however, and if his sins
were confined to those and similar
grievances there would be no reason
why we should preach crusade
against him. But getting in the food
and disturbing our slumbers are the
least of his offenses.
For years medicine was q mere blind
cropping in the dark We never sought
for the cause of anything, and conse
quently we never kenw medicine cured
a disease, if it did, or what produced
the disease. or how to prevent it. We
had epidemics and we let them rage,
we had fevers and we did all we could
to help them along instead of stopping
them; we know that dreadful disease
broke out periodically in certain places
and localities, and we were satisfied to
lay the blame on the good Lord, and
never seek to find a way to suppress
them. Of late years we have begun to
seek for the source of trouble. and we
have as a result made some of the
most unhealthy places in world the
most healthy. We have learned that
the things we ignored and thought of
no Importance were our most deadly
enemies, and thus today we are slaugh-
tering the mosquito to get rid of ma
laria, instead of taking quinine, and we
are fighting the fly because his filthy
feet and general scavenger habits are
potent sources of disease and death.
The fly is one of the worst enemies
of mankind. He lights upon diseased
person and then after getting his feet
filed with bacilli flies away to light
upon some healthy person and drop the
germs there. He walks over putrid
matter and filth of all kinds and then
comes and wipes his feet on your food.
He walks over your face, and his
march is tracked. if you could only
see it, by trail of disease germs that,
if they can get under your skin at any
point, will breed some fever or sore,
and yoH will wonder where you got the
complaint
Inc crusade mas advanced against
the mosquito, has advanced so far that
some of the localities which kenw hin,
most now know him no longer. Not a
mosquito has been found on the
lsthmus of Panama for several years,
we are told. and the instant one ap.
pears he is pursued by all the popula-
tion regardless of race or color until
he is laid low. Even the barefooted
urchin on the streets of Colon or
Panama knows that the mosquito must
go. But the fly so far has not excited
the interest or the dislike of mankind
to the same extent as his fellow insect,
and vet he is far worse. The mosquito
is not nearly as prevalent as the fly,
and only some kinds of mosquitoes are
dangerous, while all flies are disease
breeders. IT is time to begin to ex-
trminate the pest.
How shall we do itf First. by care.
fully covering all garbage and refuse,
especially all barnyard and stable
manure. No more prolific breeding
place for flies can be found than a
stable. unless the manure is covered
and placed wnere the flies cannot get
10 it to lay their eggs. Next to stables
fsere is the sion barrel and the place
w,ere deeayed fruit and vegetables
are thrown. Butcher shops should be
carefully guarded from flies. and if
YOU are wise you will refuse to buy
meat IF any butcher who does not pro,
feet his meat from the little insects