The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-05-02

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take care of these few hopeiessly IN
different citizens, and the American
civic Association, with its headquarters
in Washington, is ready 10 seh0 d
model ordinance to anyone who Wisnes
to urge its p upon us munlcl-
pality.
The wonen's clubs which have be-
come militant crusaders have sur
prised themselves with the possibilities
Of the effective work they can do. So
successful has his element OF the
crusade been that a special effort VIII
be made to interest every club in the
country, and they will be supplied with
helpful literature at all times. NO
one breads filth like women and their
cred by the leaders Of the movement
as one Of the greatest aids they can
hope to command.
Then there is opportunity for the
individual. Last year. a woman IN
Boston set her own premises in order
and showed her neighbors how easy it
is to keep the flies from multiplying
at home. She had a supply of litera-
ture and was able to tell the newspa-
pers what she was doing, and her mis-
sionary work finally spread until it
reached whole communities. When an
individual begins a campaign of swat
ting the fly all he need do is to tell
the newspapers what he is doing and
that becomes q news story. and the
heavy artillery Of the press is turned
loose in support Of the work.
One of the leaders Of the "swatting
the fly crusade thinks the best time
to begin h fighting against those
which survive the campaign against
the fly egg and the fly maggot, is when
they first take to wing. According
to observations made in England last
year it has been found that after a fe--
male fly gets her wings she takes a va
cation. varying from ten to fourteen
days, before she begins her fight
against rae suicide. He thinks that
If the fly traps were moved from the
house to the stable and other breed
ing places, the female flies might be
caught before they complete their va
cations.
1t has been discovered that the fly
will breed only where fermentation is
taking place. While horse manure con-
stitutes one of their favorite hatcher
les, they pass by horse manure from
CRASHED animals. They also dislike
cattle manure But sometimes they
breed in surprising places. An . cpl
delnic of dysentary last summer swept
Through q New England insane asy-
lum. Everything pointed to the fact
that itw as ~fly-borne, since it began
gradually instead of suddenly, as it
would have done # it had been the
result of bad food. Innumerable flies
were found around the place, but a
careful investigation showed that the
stables were perfectly clean and that
all possible precautions had been
taken to prevent the multiplication of
flies. The authorities were non
plussed. Finally someone thought to
xamin a coating of spent barley
which had been secured from a brew
cry and spread over the grounds as a
Millions of baby flies were
found in it,.
Other pulling conditions sometimes
arise. The town of Norfolk, Connect
cut, has been waging a war against
flies and in spite of it's hardest work
they did not seem to decrease in num-
Der. Every sanitary precaution was
taken, and the people were puzzled.
Then someone thought that perhaps
the flies they were fighting were not
house flies. So they caught a box of
them and sent them to the American
Civic Association at Washington. They
We're turned over to the Bureau of En-
tomology for examination-and sure
enough, Norfolk had been using
kind of fly.
The people.of the country will
probably be assured Of flyless summer
boarding houses during the coming
summer. The American Civic Asso-
citation is thinking of preparing a
white list" in which all summer re-
sorts and boarding places which can
d satisfactory evidence that
they measure I'm to the association
standard Of freedom from flies will
be Incorporated. There will be no cor
responding black list. but all the sum
mer bOarder need do when planning
his vacation is to write to the Civic |
A o. XTnc1ir n% 90 -
will be furnished the list of good
places.
Wherever the fly crusade has been |
carried to g proper degree of COM |
pleteness it never has failed to ac-
complish the predicted end. A few
years 6 all stables in the uptown |
district of Washington were
ordered to keep their manure in COW |