Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-02-12

| that barn dozen times or more with
that impression--that 1t had been
charred and very badly smoked. One
day there happened to be little ex-
ira light or it was a brighter day
than usual and / found that what |
had taken for charring and smoke
stain was simply an incrustation of
fly specks. Now, this is not exag-
gerated, and the point is this; That
in that community absolutely nothing
is done in a general way to reduce
the fly nuisance. People accept it and
submit to it simply as necessary
condition to life here on earth. Now,
know that united effort on the
part of these people to clean up their
yards. keeping their stables and cor
rails cleaned out, using lime and white
wash, that in few seasons of that
kind of treatment there would not be
one fly where now there are thous-
ands, but there would be plenty even
then. l am deaf. For years l have
MT heard the buzz Of fly. l can
hardly hear person speak when the
ordinary tone of voice is used, but in
this same neighborhood that l am
telling you about, last fall, heard
lies buzz. l approached a pig pen
that was black with flies and as
struck the boards to make the pigs
move so that l could see them the
flies rose in such cloud and with such
a noise that ] heard them like the
wind rustling the dry leaves in the
fields in November. It was music,
all right, but l did not like the band.
Now, then, the immediate yard around
the house where this happened is
swept daily. In fact, in this particu-
lar town it seems to be a very dis
graceful thing to permit a loose leaf
within eight or ten feet of the house,
and around some little houses the
paths have been swept until ridges
have been farmed at the edge of the
path that are from eight inches to a
foot high above the level of the path.
Now, it Is nice thing to keep the
immediate house-yard free from all
litter, but why should so much energy
be expended here and then submit
quietly, calmly, peacefully and with
dignity to the fly nuisance? 1t is
beyond me. can't understand it.
However, the dignity helps some.
Farmers Home is on the Farm.
| "The place for the farmer to live
at the present time Is on his farm.
honestly think that the worst place
in the state of Utah to live is in some
of the small towns. Now, that's a
pretty strong statement to make.
Country towns in Utah ought to be
very decent places to live. Possibly,
compared to the rest of the world
they are. But let me tell you what !
mean. In one town of about 1000
population the people are mostly
farmers, having farms outside and
homes inside the town. They haul
their feed and all farm products ell
into town and sometimes they haul
the manure out. On one block, where
| asked for information, four families
were living and last winter $50 head
of cattle were wintered on the interior
of that block, and lot of the manure
left by those cattle laid there thru
the summer. There is no sewerage;
they do have fairly good water sup
lply. Another town, where conditions
are somewhat similar to those have
just described, is dry town under a
democratic administration, but the Of
ficials do not see and many of the
pigs are blind. This is the more re-
markable when you understand that
coming in contact with one of those
blind Pigs often makes a man see
double. On any kind of holiday,
gambling on the streets is open.
have seen men on the sidewalk in the
business part Of the town walking up
and down with currency in their fing-
ers calling for bets on foot-races,
| and jumping contests about to take
place right there on sidewalk on a
block diagonally across the street
from the Westinghouse. Horse-rac-
ng on the streets is permitted by con-
sent of the mayor. This was every
lay for ten days where several hun
dred people, men and boys mostly,
but a few girls and women, assem-
bled to see the horse-racing, and
threading in and about the crowd were
numbers of men seeking for bets,
'arrying their money in their hands
and calling loudly for takers of their
betting propositions. l do not object
to witnessing fair horse race or any
properly conducted contest of athletic
skill. | enjoy these things myself.
do object to the betting on those
things, which is in itself violation
Of the state law. Now, perhaps where
the state laws are so fagrantly vio-
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