Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1913-04-30
SWAT THE FLY AND SWAT
HIS BREEDING PLACES

The follovinr Is from an article
written b. d. leonard Keen Hirsh-
berg and " Il Toes not inspire every
reader 10 enel setic efforts In a fly ,
lhwatting campaign nothing will. lilo
says:
The summer about TO dawn Is
the tenth anniversary OF our conelu-
siye conviction and tangible proof
that the common nuisance and ubiq-
uitous plague. the pestiierous house,
ny. produces many dangerous mala'
dies such as typhoid. cholera. dysen-
terry. infant ailments and the Ike
True enough ever since the govern
lment report about thetyphoid fever |
among American soldiers. In the
Spanish war. the housefly was fairly
well known to be responsible for tue
lspread OF that Infection. II was not.
however. until the researches OF the
lepsuing years had accumulated. that
the fly's guilt was established beyond
the cayil OF doubt.
The proboscis or what you might
call the tongue OF the housefly, IL
most pernicious organ. To change
Shakespearean saw. hell hath, no
fury ike the housefly's tongue BE-
side 4, the scandal inonger's tongue
IL peaches aud cream. Because the
ltommon fly cannot chew. food must
he served up to II IN liquid form. IN
b,her words, a lily Is always on
toft. liquid or fever diet As q tly
alights upon food II sticks out It's
tongue or proboscis by means of air
laos. or vacuum cleaners, which blow
but the proboscis just as YOU blow
into a glove to expand the fingers.
mother pump OF the fly's mouth
Sucks In the liquid food mixed with
the fly's saliva The food passes
Through the alimentary canal and the
undesirable parts are shot forth as
lflecks OF dust and mOistened dirt
from the under surface of the ily's
body
1T has been abundnntly confirmed
hy experiments that the fly not only
stores up food for days and weeks ut
time In its crop. but II also yomits
l. fresh as well as old food very often.
c. A fly will thus regargitate out
through its mouth and proboscis
n mixed with saliva. In order to liquify
food that is too solid for II To take.
:" indeed. flies are so filthy In their
Id habits that they would vomit forth
to aud reswallow their food many
n times. The WON'T spots may be seen
f. on white surfaces or window panes
ne and easily distinguished from spots
IN bf waste matter discharged by the
m fly. because they are much lighter
az In color than the latter. You MAY
thus picture TO Yourself what takes
~ blace when a fly gorged with a liquit
y. diet OF typhoi material, tubercu los
is sputum or l.robe rich milk, hop
w gaily her, 1 there on your Der
". ries. butter Igai bowl and kitchen
III. utensils. The apparently clean an'
ny harmless ny that idly glides int
mt your kitchen from the passing gar
bago cart. IN order 10 have a bit o
III your bread. YOUR sugar. your mea,
Is or your butter, yomits a few time
ne here and there wherever II alights
BY Briefly, II a lily wishes TO slip som'
Ill nourlshmen, rom your table II mus
on vomit several times. at least, upol
DIS ihe food Il Graves Some of It's elec
III ted saliva and yomit may be tn
femnants OF field repas,s obtained
some days previously. Moreover
the sticky. gley cushions upon
"' 5ly's feet are literally swarmin
with bacteria and other diseas
tpreadiug fifth. The much admire
TX. and graceful act Of fly walkin
ter upside down Is due 20 this mucilap
me enous material present upon the III
sect's feet The footpads of II
are so glulinous that they take u
bart OF anything they come In COZ
~ tact with. Every known diseas
Il Iserm and contagion has been r,
lowered from the soles of fly
foot Since the abiding places
The nusca domestica are stable
me barns manure heaps rubbish boXe
nv outhouses and any decaying animi
sn' br vegetable matter you may We
'P Imagine what variety OF germs ma
ms be encountered upon fly's feet an
.e, Inside lts hollow tongue and mouti
On Such delectable places are tn
breeding spots OF the mother n!
m Iyhe Laws her eggs In a series
- ltrom 100 e. 200 at a time. Sh
i've usually llves long enough 10 rea
md many Thousands OF progeny half
IA (which IN turn also become aggre
jsive. egg.layng mothers. One Y
,,c Killed In April is equal 70 the con
. lbined onslaufht and destruction
in billions OF flies in July and Angus
-lp The boy or girl who destroys n
- harly flies o. April and May ca
10 carve himself or herself a belt wi,
mas the motto o, II OF A Million
Idt Zone BLOW For. potentially ever
TIC siother rs ioday will be responsible
- ror billions on billions In August
liu- AN Of ths mighty milk crusade
.os' with their inns OF pure, undeiil'
-ue and germ rec milk will go Il
- naught wat the fly campaig
OK y not VIGOROUSLY maintained q
H. Through tho .eason You may ha'
h milk 50 srenely perfect that M
tic bacteria Is In II, yet " there be