The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1913-09-09

would always catch more flies than
those on the sunny side.
1t was quickly discovered, in con-
versation with Redlands fy-catcher,
that he has made study Of the
psychology of flies. He knows how,
when and where they breed, how
much damage they do and how nee
essary it is to the health of any com
munity to get rid Of the pests.
Everyone knows ne said, "the
real danger of the housefy. 1t has
been spread broadcast until there is
scarcely an intelligent community but
contains people known how the fly can
carry all sort of foul disease germs,
how typhoid, tuberculosis and many
other dread diseases--even infantile
paralysis-can be spread by flies.
cit probably seems to almost every
householder that winter kills off all
the flies; even month of cold wealth
er seems sufficient for this; but if you
will investigate in the early spring,
YOU will be amazed to find many flies
about your home Look in your GEL
lar and you will doubtless find these
flies patiently doing away around the
hot air pipes, in corners of the cell
ing, inthe rafters and crevices, around
the kindling piles, behind barrels and
boxes stored away, and in many such
places.
''In the early April days, or in the
South. as early as the first of March,
the female fly that so cleverly tucked
herself away in some warm nook OF
YOUR house will begin to awake from
her long sleep, futter her wings, snlV-
er a few shivers and then fare forth
to multiply.
'This female fly has from 120 to 200
eggs which she wants to deposit, and
which she will deposit. If there is
no stable at hand, she will deposit
those eggs in the garbage pan, or
even in the earth of your rubber plant
or ferns or palms. She will find some
place to deposit these eggs-any place
where there is exposed organic mat
erial.
"Now, if the weather is fairly warm,
every female fly that was hatched
from the 200 eggs deposited by our
first fly (the one that passed through
the winter sleeping) will begin to de-
post eggs at the end of ten days.
'Tnis little fly that first deposited
eggs the first of April will have been
responsible for descendants by the
first of next September that will
amount to ten raised to the thirteenth
power, or more than one hundred
thousand million! If one fly can do
this, what can house full Of flies
do?
"The remedy is to begin in the early
spring and fight the flies. Search
your house as though you were look
ing for a two-carat diamond you
knew was there; hunt up every fly
in every Granny and crevice and kill
it. When the warm weather comes up
fight with screens and traps, and,
above all, with searching out the
breeding places and destroying them.
working on the basis that the best
way was not to swat, so generally ad-
vocated, but to capture in large
quantities, 1 devised the fy-catcher.
How successful they have been, only
Redlands knows. They have kept the
dwellings, and even the meat mar
kets, grocery stores and fruit shops
almost entirely free of flies, and each
day thousands and thousands of the
pest are caught in the traps.
''The most important thing in the
use of the fly trap is the bait. Bread
and milk is the best, and should be
frequently renewed 1t should always
be fresh and never allowed to dry
I'D. for it then loses it's attractiveness.
The best way to kill the trapped flies
is to immerse the top portion OF the
trap in boiling water; then destroy
the dead flies by burning this, de-
stroying all the germs that are on
them"