The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1911-04-19

in and while the cellar Is being en-
tied it is not fly-tight. The warm
material is the best possible fly incu-
bator, and while the trap-door is
/ open the flies will swarm out. We
must take this into account in trying
to know how" to deal with the
problem.
Again. our health authorities in
sist on covering garbage cans fly
| tight. This literally drives the fam
ishing creatures into our kitchens for
food.
For several years the writer has been
obliged to catch quantities Of insects
TO feed bobwhite and partridge
chicks. 1t is not only easv to catch
flies, but easier yet to let them catch
themselves, If we only Know how to
give them the chance.
! All we need to eliminate the fly
| from our premises is durable, effec-
| tive outdoor wire-screen trap, SO
baited that its enticing doors Will
draw into it all the flies that come
anywhere near. The traps we can
buy are intended for indoor use. and
rust if used outdoors. The flies seek
their food entirely by smell and IN
the traps on the market the bal,
| trap is too small to compete with
the garbage can or With the saw Try
smells of the kitchen window.
The omnipresent tomato can u:ay
well be drafted into service as the
bait trap. and will hold enough Sc
| lected table scraps to attract the flies
even out of the house. The same
small, durable trap that is made TO
lit over it may, however, be placed
over . hole in the cover of a gar
bage can BY putting everything at
| tractiye to flies in this receptacle, a
mplete focus of the pests may be
established which will draw in every
hungry fly and catch it.
This is the modern vacuum clean
ing method applied to flies instead
of the usual feather-duster method.
Like the particle of dust that may
infest a house for the entire year
between housecleanings, or longer,
we may drive away the same fly a
hundred times. We do not need to
catch it but once. When all are
caught, there will be no more to lay
their eggs in the stable cellar or
other filth, the stream will be dried
lup at its fountainhcad, and we may
open our windows and doors to the
[breezes of summer, free and screen
| less.
Three Years Experience.
| From three years eXperierSe with
this method, the writer is confident
that by the inte!Mgent-or even the
common ser5e-use of this simple
plan ~ every household, town or
City, or even farming community,
may be completely freed from Musca
domestica. 1t is only necessary that
the trapping be continued until the
last pair is caught; and until all
our neighbors do likewise. the traps
MIST remain to catch the first pairs
thai come in from outside.
If all the meat scraps are included
with the garbage, the host Of flesh
flies, the bluebottle and green bottle
flies will also be caught, along with
several other common species.
The stable fly, the fly that "bites"
with sharp sting, the black fly, the
all probably attracted only by warm
blood upon which they feed.
If we allow no free feeding, there
will be no breeding on our premises.
and with fourteen days in which
to catch a fly between the time it
energies and begins to lay its eggs,
this method ought to do away with
the breeding altogether. However, to
make assurance twice doubly sure, the
writer has three other lines of at
tack, all directed against the adult
insect outdoors.
The fallacy of Twilight stable cell
lars has already been discussed. Now
suppose, instead, we have one win
screened with durable fy-screen.
The flies Matching in the material will
swarm to this window.
At the top OF this screen we may
have a hole through which the flies
may escape, but over it we fasten
our ira. All the flies breeding in
the place will then be halted on their
first journey out.
Again, this screen window will at
tract the flies of the neighborhood,
which are seeking place to deposit
their eggs. IL we shut them out,
they will hunt until they find some
other accumulation of filth. We may
have another hole IN our screen to
invite them in, but over it fasten an
other trap. We thus catch them go
ing and coming.
This device the writer has not full
ly tested but it probably, alone,
would free a neighborhood well pro-
vided with stable cellars from the
fly nuisance. If boards of health
would insist that in all cases in which
stable cleanings are not dug into
the soil daily this simple device be
attached to the pits or cellars, and
if universally and consistently ap-
piled, it is safe to say that people
would not need screen windows or
doors, so far as protection against
the typhoid-fly is concerned
Before storms, on cool evenings, or
when odoriferous cooking-boiling
cabbage or canning fruits being
done, flies swarm into the kitchen.
The attraction may be food, shelter
or warmth Until determination is
complete, we shall probably need to
have our kitchen doors and windows
screened, and this situation indi-
Gates a third line of attack.
Flies. buzzing round and trying to