The Glenwood post., 1912-06-01
SWAT THE FLY


small charcoal shovel, and pour 20 drops
/ of earb0lic acid ON it. The fumes from
( the acid viii kill all the flies in g
large room. Another way is to burn
pyrethrum powder ordinary PERSIAN
: Insect Powder (which, if pure and
freshly ground, will give off a dense
smoke that will stupify every fly with
/ in reach OF It's fumes, so that they can
| be swept up and burned. Kill them
with swatters.' \ very simple,
homemade swatter'' can be made %
piece OF wire window screening four
| or five inches wide and six to eight
inches long inserted in a c.eft in the
end of a two-foot stick.
or the stray fly, use sticky fly paper
and poison. The most effective poison
| is solution of formalin in the propos
| ti0n of eight teaspoonfuls to quart o.
water. This IS a safe poison where
little children are about, for even #
/ they should drink it, it would not Kill
them. Break a small nick In the edga
of bottles mouth, fill the bottle with
| the solution and stand it, inverted, il
a saucer. Enough of the poison will
flow into the saucer to answer the pur
pose, and as it evaporates more will
flow dows from the bottle. A piece OF
bread covered with sugar, placed IN
the saucer, will attract the flies. If
placed where dogs or birds can get at
it, cover the poison with a screen o.
coarse wire, so as not to poison any
thing but the flies.
Another cheap and reliable fly poison
which is not dangerous to human life
is made by dissolving one drachm o.
bichromate of petroleum in two ounces
of water, sweetened with sugar.
Fly traps can be easily made at
home by rolling p,ece or wire net
ting into cylinder eight inches in di
ametcr and a foot high. Another pieta
of the netting is folded into cone
and placed over the top and another
cone placed inside the lower end of the
cylinder, this conc having a hole punch
ed in its apex through which the flies
can crawl readily. The device should
be set up so the flies may crawl under
it, and baited with sweets.
A form of fly trap that is especially
eff ctive in stores and restaurant kitch-
uns consists of trough of tin, three
quarters of an inch wide AID of tho
same depth, and as long as the width
of the window. If this is placed close
| against the window on the ms de AMI
Kept half flied with kerosene, every
! Ay approaching the window viii fan
into IT, for the fumes of the kerosene
/ have AN overpowering effect on tine
insect.
Screen doors are fayorite gathering
place for flies, which hang about them
ting for someone to let them IN.
NIX a teaspooHfUI Of carbolic acii
with a quart Of kerosene and rub tha
so'rtiou on the screen door. 1t viii at
.nce cease to attract the flies. A weak
solution of formaldehyde may be ap-
oiled IN the same way
The same caTbo,ic aajd and kerosene
solution may be used in an ordinary
plant sprayer to spray the garbage can,
which IS tine principal attraction tor
dies indoors. A better plan, however,
IS to keep the garbage can outdoors
and put fly trap in the cover of 1t.
Any local tinsmith can attach a trap
10 tAo cover readily, and at very sma.
expense. Fly traps can also be easily
attached to window screens so that
flies which do get in will be caught as
rhey are going out
There would be no flies to kill If
there were no filth for them to breed
in. Ninety per cent of all flies are
bred in horse manure, so keep the sta
bic tightly screened, with fly traps SCI
in the window screens. Spray the
floors around the horse stalls with Il
good dsinfectant. Pyroligenous acid,
a b. b--Product of the distiIlation of tur-
pcnt.ue, is a very valuable spray, be
cause ii is effective and non ntlamable.
1t can be bought for $l.25 barrel and
may be obtained wherever paints and
oils are sold Kerosene is good, but n
creases the fire risk. Keep the stable
refuse in bin tightly covered with a
wire netting cover. This will prevent
the female fly from getting access to
the contents to lay her eggs
Clean up every place where decaying
animal or vegetable refuse accumulates.
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