The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1910-05-13
SHOOTING THE PESKY FLY OFF
THE MAP

''The fly is more dangerous tina
the tiger or the cobra. 1t may b
classed, the world over, as the mos
dangerous creature on earth. Thi
in the light of recently acquire,
knowledge" Such is the statemen
made by DR.. Daniel d. Jackson, tn
eminent New York authority Tn,
typhoid fly was the cause of five time
as many deaths in the Spanish-Ameri
can was as were the bullets of tn,
enemy. So states the United State.
medical commission appointed to in
vestigate the subject. Typhoid fevel
costs the nation $3.50 100000 year
according to the report of the nation
al conservative commission. One
third of his infection is fly borne. III
New York City alone 1000 children
die each year that would have lived
but for the fly.
Yet 95 per cent of the flies might
be kept from ever coming into being
by so simple manure from stables
where horses are kept. The frightful
loss from fly borne disease might be
consequently decreased by IS per
cent. The remaining small danger
might be brought to almost naught
by an intelligent understanding of
just the measures necessary in pre-
vceting it,
Such is the opinion expressed by
the government through it's bureau of
entomology. Such is the conclusion
reached by the Merchants association
of New York after an exhaustive ex-
animation lasting through years. Such
is the conclusion reached by the
American Civic association which has
aS it's object the improvement of liv-
ing condition the country over. So
strong has become the conviction in
the minds of these and kindred or
CARNATIONS throughout the country
that the fly is an overshadowing men
ace that war has been declared
against it and is this season being
pushed as it was never pushed before.
The nation is being called to arms
against the pest.
1t is just at this season of the
year that the presence of the fly be-
comes generally evident and it is from
this time to October that it takes it's
deadly toll. 1t is at this time. there
fore, that the warfare should be car
ried into the enemy's camp. 1t is at
this time that every householder
should become acquainted with the
facts and see to it that his premises
are not producing the creature that
endangers his own family and every
9th 70 i11y in thn I,icinitv
Campaign of Education
The American Civic association,
through its secretary, Richard B.
Watrous of Washington, is leading in
a national campaign of education 1t
has, for instance. placed a moving
picture lecture with the great firms
that handle this line of entertainment
the nation. During the
season there will not be a hamlet in
the nation that will not be made ac-
quainted with the life history of the
fly in this way. Mr.. Watrous also
has stereoptican views which he is
to all callers at cost and
which are eminently appropriate for
Use by local boards of health and civic
asocaitions. Scores allied organiza-
ions are touching the problem in
scores of ways with the object of 6
lrousing the people.
And the life story of the fly is {
worth the telling. The fly has long ,
,een an enigma. Yet it has been re- ,
,arded as nothing mroe serious than r
! bothersome nuisance. A score of +
ears ago the current w-old-is-Ann f
Iuerie was. Where do the flies go q
n winter" The question is still +
rarely answerable. 1t is almost i'm y
'ossible to find a fly in March, yet !,
here are billions in september. Here +
S the story of it. r
Increases Rapidly d
The cold of the winter kills off :.
he great mass of the flies. There are :,
nestimable quantities of them perish y
ANONYMOUSLY. They all seem to have =
isappeared. There is, however, an ;,
OCCASIONAL individual that tucks him ~
elf away in sung corner Of the gar -
ct rafters, or down in the furnace :,
Dom and succeeds in keeping alive.
here is an occasional manure pile
nat is kept warm by fermentation =.
nd here the embryonic flies live. 8,
Vhen the first warm days come the -
y awakens and finds itself isolated g.
Johnson Crusoe in a world almost l.,
with it's fellows. Its in =,
,inct is to go forth and multiply, for :,
pon this capacity depends the exist :,
nee of al Its kind. The fly lays 120 i; j..
sgs in manure pile. In ten days IS
lese eggs are mature and there are p
20 flies ready to reproduce them
lives. Each of these produces 100
fsprings twenty days from the first
eginning. That makes 14,400 flies -,
it'll the same productive power. u
hese breed 1,72S,000 in another ten W
avs and 200,000,OO0 at the end of IL
month. The multiplication goes on ca
n five months and at the end of that W
ne