The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-06-16
Waging a Fight
 Against The Fly
Medical Authorities Give the h.
 sect Bad Name

The American Civic Association. as well as other organizations, is plan | ming a general campaign against the house fly, which is. accused of being a sort of common carrier of disease germ and generally filthy in it's hab. it's. Literature is being circulated for the purpose of educating the pup lie as to the danger of the fly The work of the insect as a carrier or ty- phoid germs is especially emphasiz- ed and it is said that single harm less-looking house fly may carry from $50 to 6,6OO,000 bacteria. These germs may be, often are, the germs not only bears away on its legs tiny particles from a typhoid patients discharges-on which it gladly feeds whenever possible-but 1t also car ries yirulent typhoid bacilli in its dl- gestive organs.
 These germs it takes to the 1000 of other persons leaving them in quantities. On every tiny spot on your family's food that has been touched by a fly which has fed on typhoid discharges, colony of bac- teria begins to grow with huge ra- pidity. One single footprint of a house fly was found to have left S60,- 900 fungus spores, 1,250,00O is the average number of bacteria per fly found in experiments with 4l4 hles which had fed at COW stables, gar bage barrels, pig pens, etc
 As for the wholesome country doctors have shown that practically all of the terribly prevalent typhoid is borne. not so much by bad water, hut bv flies visiting the outhouses. Once the country flies thus gather germs, they can leave them in milk or butter. They gather thlckly about most dairies, markets, etc. And typhoid germs will live in milk for twenty days. while in butter the germs will live for one hundred and forty days In the laboratory, many scientists have by carefuI eXperi- ments proved that flies do carry germs every time they touch them Tn a number of cases cited by pr. l.. o. Howard in his book, scientists have had flies walk over and feed on solutions containing typhoid bac1ll1. When these flies were transferred to clean containers they always were found to carry the germs to the new vessels.
 The physicians also accuse the fly of spreading diarrhea, consumption, dysentery, cholera. bubonic plague, smallpox, diphtheria and, last of all, the pinkeye. Aside from the ob- vious precaution of screens various traps are recommended and one re- gently described in d bulletin of the Kansas Experiment Station is made as follows:
 .'Ta1e a flat strip of tin two and one-fourth inches wide and one and one-half inches longer than the dis tance between the side rail or stile and middle rail of the sash. With the tin lying fat. bend it to form the bottom and lateral sides of box, cutting small incisions in the tin to make the flap ends. which are bent along the sides--as in making a box of paper. In size the size the side of the box should measure the same as the pane, so that it may fit in at the bottom of the pane.
 ITO make the box water tight solder the joints, or try moistened plaster of Paris. The box should fit snugly between the middle and side rail or stile. The box should rest on top of the bottom rail, and can be held in place by two or three tacks.
 After the traps have been at. tached. some substance should be put into them that will either kill the insect or hold it. For the first. kerosene, kerosene emulsion, soap studs and pyrethrum are the best; and for the second, moIasses, or a