Gunnison news-champion., 1915-07-16
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= = hoe locsIng the stanis after tns
horss n stosen. ThaFe i a better one
swat tho eggs Probably eSery
magazine and newspaper VI shs tiaitea
st~tes prInssd ia~s season from ons O.
= -cure VI arraigunsenss os the couamon
~ the ase-hreesi.r. sne typboid
~ the infanti.e para sac iiy. ~ q word.
the t~ontieth eentasy pes. an enemy
of ussnknd swat shs ~ has be
eonse The sloesn Of the asX
For every fy kilisd N Msy there siil
be ten thousand less W June. q million
less W Jaly. and by septembet the mos;
ambitious boy. eager 20 earn the prize
for the greatest number Of fines kilied.
couidn 4 possibly aft the progeny Of
this single iy which ESCAPED hins IN the
zpringtime. All very true bat where
val ali those aes lay their eggs and
rear their precious babies Can we
lind the nests. can We destroy them by
wholesale, the larvae or the eggs We
can. easily and cheapiy, and every city
with ordinary regulations may become
a fiyiess town. Flies breed va hlth,
principally msnare, and the ordinary
piie Of stable manure viii bring forth
enough flies TO Keep five hundred fsmi-
hes fighting the pests from morning tai
night. III one-tenth Of the money IN
vested in fiy screens was spent ON Kill
ing fly eggs laid in manure plies and
garbage cans. there would be no need
of the fy screens which keep cut the
flies and incidentally large proportion
of the cooling hreezes of summer.
Our Government has carried ON an
extensive experiment with manure
plies aud the eggs which each female
fly deposits therein by tine thousand and
has found the remedy. Ii is ordinary
borsx, one of the commOnest and cheap
est of minerals, produced in abundance
in the United States. and it takes very
little to make the fly egg quite worth
less as future fiy. Borsx costs about
five cents a pound, and the crude borax
mineral, eolemanite, considerably less,
while three-ifths of pound sprinkled
through 10 cubic feet about eight
bushels-of manure will kills SO per
cent of the eggs and maggots of the fly.
A long series of experiments looking
to the destruction of fly eggs and fly
Larvae in manure piles has been carried
ON under the direction of DIR. l.. O.
Howard, the entomologist of the De-
partment of Agriculture, the manure
being treated in boxes or cages, the
collection of these resembling a group
of huge beehives. The manure, well
infested with fly eggs, was treated with
Borax, kerosene, potassium cyanide,
copper sulphate, Paris
green and ten or dozen other chemi-
Gals, but none gave satisfactory results
except the borax. Strangely enough,
the lsthmian Canal Commission larvi-
eide, consisting of carbolic acid, resin,
caustic. soda and water, which kills
larvae in less than half an
hour, had but slight effect upon fly
arv8.
An important consideration in the
Dorax treatment is in the effect on the
Some of the chemicals tested
the manure dangerous as a
fertilizer, making it more harmful than
to plant growth, but borax
not only makes the manure possibly
more beneficial as fertilizer, but pre-
vents burning or fire fanging, a natural
process with ordinary manure piles
which considerably reduces the fertiliz-
ng effect.
The borax treatment is simplicity it.
self. DIR Howard's advice is TO apply
to 10 pounds of borax to every eight
bushels of manure Immediately upon
It's removal from the barn, sitting the
oorax around the outer edges of the
pile with common -four sitter and
then sprinkle large watering pot
full of water over it. The flies lay
their eggs on the fresh manure and the
borax when it comes incontact with the
eggs, prevents their Matching. The
"" tsB. NiitNti hb i4dlCh iillO fihGgOls
will sooner or later encounter the borax
and die. The treatment should be re-
peated with each addition of fresh
since the eggs hatch out in
one day, but remain in the manure as
for several days more. When
the manure is kept in closed boxes or
pits less frequent auulicstiOus will suf
nee. Refuse tand garbage should be
treated in the same way. The cost Of
manure treatment is figured at one cent
per horse per day.
The borsx treatment is so simple, so
effective, and so inexpensive and so
small burden on the individual. that
any community can enact and easily en-
force regulations which viii leave the
fly without breeding place; hence there
vii be no fes 70 swat.