The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-04-26

Hay their eggs. BY means OF guide
strips ON the outside OF the screen,
invite them in--into another trap
we thus catch them coming and GO
ing" This plan the writer hopes 70
test more fully next season, but II
seems TO have enough common sense
about it, ~ insure effective elimina-
ton of breeding about all such PAGES.
CAS- tested the past season lt has
proved almost extermlnatlve for the
premiBeS.)
Finally, poisoning has long been
used aa an indoor measure Why
not carry the war into the enemies
territory at every point? FOrmalin,
the common germicide, is now re-
commended as the best poison to use.
The figure shows convenient ways or
applying ~. "a good sized bottle -
filled with two per cent. solLs on
1.-TWO teaspoons TO half pint or water)
o saucer placed over IL and the whole
In inverted. a. nick is broken IN the
mouth or the, bottle, or II may be set
ON bit or chip, 70 that the liquid
will partially 1lll the saucer and q
small slice or bread, covered with
sugar, 10 placed In one side as an
added attraction. Both bottle and
saucer may be mounted In wooden
or wire bracket % that II may be
hung In any sunny corner about the
stable or porch; Or, with little
shelf tackled In place, the bottle may
be simply leaned UP in a corner
During hot, dry weather, with no 9th
er water near, this device will cover
the back porch or stable floor with
flies that will never lay eggs any
more. It is quite possible some such
poisoning method, employed general
ly out or doors would prove the
cheapest and easiest way OF dealing
with the whole fly problem. The
bottle keeps the strength OF solution
and doles II down as needed, SO that,
once set, II requires, no attention for
weeks or even months.
Stop at Nothing Short of Extermina-
Hon.
| With insects capable of breeding
UP into the millions, or even billions,
10 few weeks, it il profoundly I'M
interesting to say that this or that
laborious method will reduce their
numbers considerably" a fly may
lay six patches of eggs of from 100
to 15O each, i. g., from 700 to 900
eggs These may hatch and come
out a. adult flies in ten days. after
emerging from the pupa, however,
according to recent observations
made by Hewitt in England, a. fly
must feed for fourteen days before ii
natures it, first laying of eggs. III
every household in town had even
one outdoor trap over it's most like
ly feeding place, 1T does mot seem
improbable that every fly would catch
itself in this two weeks before Ii be-
gan to lay. This would mean exter-
mination- the stone of Sisyphus, roll
Cd over the top of the mountain and
buried III the sea. With the three
other methods we make assurance
i twice doubly sure.
The youth of a. town, fin connection
with their nature lessons and high
4 school biology, could organize the
campaign along the lines indicated
or invent and discover better-and
between the opening of spring and
June free the place of the usual sum-
mer plague of flies. There would oc-
cur such an .uplift i'm health and
Clearly living as the people had new
Ct experienced; and the account of
how the work was accomplished
would make for La Follettes the
best story of the year.
a The one thing needful1 is intelli-
gence enough ON the part of every
member of the community to realize
how many flies may breed from on
single pair. 1t has been computed
that a pair Of flies n. beginning to
! breed+early i'm April mfght,if all lived,
b. the progenitors of 191, 010 ,000, O00,-
900 1000, 900, by August. The first
nation or community i'm which this
degree of civic intelligence is attain
led will be free from flies from that
time on, and we need to develop this
intelligence with reference to good
many other natural enemies.