The Greeley tribune., 1911-08-03
FOR THE
HOUSE FLY FROM NOW On

Flies should be kept out OF our
Nopses. killed if they enter the"'
and prevented from Matching their
grgs in stables, manure heaps s"iii
rsils and other filthy places. !,
They are born in filth; they leea
m flth. they walk on filth, ana
hen. with filth sticking to tneir
saa- legs and bodies, they feed ana
ak on the food which has been
rrepared for human beings to eat
II would disgust you, wouldn't H.
n YOU saw a ny feeding on the hitn
NJ the street. the stable, the garbage
can. or on something even worse
and then saw the same. ny go
through the open door or window
of YOUR dining room and wipe his
faet on the sugar, tangle his legs IN
the butter or take a bath In the
milk9 II you should watch every
Nv that comes into the house. you
would see that most OF them had
come from such filth to the food on
your table.
Bad as filth is. 1t is not the worst
thing that flies carry about. They
swarm about open sewers, drains
and outhouses which receive mil
lions of disease germs which have
passed through the bodies OF sick
people. Flies in this way pick up
and carry on their bodies, heads and
legs (which are covered with fine
hairs-just suited for catching and
holding this sort of thing) the
germs of typhoid fever. cholera In
fantum (or the summer diarrhoea
of children), tuberculosis and sew
eral other diseases. DR.. L. o. How
ard, chief entomologist Of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
calls the common house fly the ty-
phoid fly, because so many cases OF
typhoid fever have been caused by
his carrying the germs from one
sick person to another. These germs
are so small that you cannot see
them without a microscope, but the
fly that is eating from the same
plate with you may be carrying a
million Of them.
Flies kill more people than wild
beasts and poisonous snakes. Many
of these beasts and snakes never get
a chance to kill any human being,
but any one of the millions of flies
found in most OF our towns and
cities has a chance. is he comes into
house carrying typhoid germs, of
killing a whole family.
You have been told why you
should kill flies and prevent their
breeding; this Is how to do It:
Most house flies In cities are
hatched from eggs which have been
laid in horse manure. Some breed
in other forms of filth, such as gar
bage cans, heaps of refuse In back
yards, etc. The ny lies 12O or more
eggs at time. These, II they are
not disturbed, become maggots in
about twelve hours. In from five
to eight days more, the maggots
enter the pupa state, as caterpillars
do. and after from five to seven
days come out of the earth or ma
nure in which they have buried
themselves in the form OF flies,
ready in few days to become the
fathers and mothers OF large fami-
lies. They breed so rapidly that in
one summer the children and grand
children of one pair OF flies may
amount to thousands of millions.
And remember that the germs they
carry multiply much faster than the
flies.
Screen stables II possible.
Remove the manure at least twice
week.
Keep the manure, while 1t is in
the stable, in a closed bin or Dit.
Every time the stalls are cleaned.
and the manure placed in the Dit or
Din, sprinkle 1t with dry plaster
powdered gypsum) or Stacked
lime..
Be sure that you sprinkle the
cracks and crevices of the Din or
pit, as we'll as the cracks between
the planking of the stall floors.
II flies begin to breed in stored
manure they may be killed by
thoroughly spraying it with kero-
sene or Paris green. and then pour
ing on enough water to wash the
oil or poison well in.
Ihe objection to the use Of kero-
sene is that 1t ruins the manure for
iertflizfng purposes A solution of
IRON sniphate Zone pound to a gal
ion) applied at the rate Of one gal
Ion day in stable where one
horse is kept, will kill all the mag
gots. 1t costs about 81 per hundred
pounds, so that the cost of keeping
MES from breeding in a one-horse
stable ts about one cent a day.
1t is we'll to abolish the old fash
ioned outhouses where possible.
Wnere this cannot be done, a liberal
amount Of lime should be used. an
pi1ed IN small amounts daily. Chlor-
ide OF lime is better than sIactad
lime. but Stacked lime ia better than
none at ALL
Garbage cans should be thorough.
~ cleaned after emptying. and the
contents should be sprinkled with
crude Oil, lime or kerosene oil.
Keep garbage cans closely COW
ered' unless you have a fly tran at
tached to them. Such trans NAV ho
obtained at most hardware stores
screen the doors and windows Of
your home, especially those OF the
kitchen, dining room and pantry
J., you cannot do this at least screen
tne tood itself, especially the milk
~ ~ mhlch germs multiply with more
than ordinary raDiditv