Judsonia weekly advance., 1915-06-09

Y One method of dealing with disease A. bearing insects is to trap and kill as many For this reason kill
 that fly swat that fly crusades nave been instituted in many places. But it has been found by experiment that cannot hope to kill sufficient es to reduce seriously their total numbers. This is because flies breed at very great rate when the weather is warm, and the total numbers which we can kill is so small, when compared to the total numbers born that the re- suit of the swattng" campaigns has been disap- pointing.
 All our efforts should be directed at preventing house flies from breeding-for prevention is bet ter than cure. The best way to do this is to ob- serve strict cleanness-municipal cleanliness and home cleanliness. Then these insects will desert the neighborhood, and the diseases they convey will vanish. This the policy pursued on the Suez and Panama canals to prevent ma iaria and yellow fever which conveyed from one person to another by mosquitoes. The method most successful
 The house fly breeds in filth. Each female fly as soon the weather is warm enough, lays about 150 eggs on collections of manure, decom posing garbage, street rubbish or house refuse and the eggs hatch into tiny maggots. After five days have passed each maggot becomes rolled up, Dean-shaped chrysas, and after another five days each chrysalis gives birth to a two-winged six-legged. whiskered, bristly flying insect known to us as the house fly. Bluebottles breed
 
 fotting carcasses or decaying animal matter The house fly and the lesser house fly convey disease by bathing their legs in germ-laden ma terlal, which they find during their feeding forays The germs stick to their legs and to the lips of their telescopic proboscides and then are carried to the milk jug, the teacup, to the cut loaf and to the culinary utensils. Sometimes the flies swallow the germs which multiply inside them and afterwards the concentrated disease focus is again deposited wherever the fly settles
 We can be rid of flies if observe the ordi- nary common sense rules of cleanliness and sani- taton. No fly lairs, or breeding places must be permitted human habitations. All unclean places must be made clean regularly once week by the sanitary or municipal authorities, and then the fly maggots will be unable to come to ma turity. and so the pest will be exterminated Re gently war on flies has been taken up assdu- ously by the press, and the medical officers of health are exertng themselves to start antiAy campaigns
 Thus the municipal authorities have made start and it remains for the individual house. holders to help them Each one of us can do our share Of fly prevention. We prevent flies in our own homes. On one morning, every week we must insSect our own premises Begin in the kitchen Observe every nook of the scuery the pantry, the cellar, even the dining room, and see that every corner and cranny is scrupulously clean. Next, we must examine the dustbin to see if 1t is completely cleaned out. Let there be no small collections of tea leaves spilled out of It, or rotting peelings or scraps of bread, or any other places where flies breed. Let the cheese be we'll covered, and the bread be in it's pan, and all food within the larder in it's proper place. And let everything be clean and whole some.
 It Is most important, also to inform our neigh. bors on every convenient occasion of the disgust ing and dangerous character of house flies, aud to ask them to cooperate in preventing them Then there will be organized campaign against these insects. The more we talk about it the sooner will the thing be done. The education of children in the matter is also most essential Then new generation will grow up knowing the dangers of flies and how to prevent them. Schoolmasters and schoolmistresses should be in. vited to teach their charges about flies, and should set the example by instructing them in the tenets of school cleanliness. This will help us greatly If we all keep our own homes sweet and clean our childrens lives will be spared the horrors of summer sickness, typhoid will be lessened doc tors bill will be reduced, and the health of the community will be improved enormously. With regard to house flies and fy-borne diseases the remedy is simple Let apply it.
 As result of experiments the specialists of the United States department of agriculture have discovered that small amount of ordinary borax sprinkled daily on manure will effectively prevent the breeding of the typhoid house fly. Similarly, the same substance applied to garbage, refuSe open toilets, damp floors and creylces In stables cellars markets. will prevent fly eggs from matching. Borax will not kill the adult fly nor prevent it from laying eggs, but its thorough will prevent any further breeding.
 The investigation, which included experiments with many substances, undertaken to dis cover some of preventing the breeding of flies in horse manure without lessening the value of this manure fertilizer for use by the farmer. It was felt that if some means of pre- venting the breeding of flies near human habi- tation could be devised the diseases spread by these filthy germ carriers could be greatly duced While the swat the fly campaign" traps and other devices for reducing the number of typhoid carrying flies of value, they are of less importance than the prevention of the breed ing It realized, however, that measure for preventing the breeding of flies would come into common unless 1t such that the farmer could use it on his manure pile without destroying its usefulness for growing plants, and without introducing into the soil any substance that would interfere with his crops.
 As result of experiments carried on at the Ar lington farm. in Virginia, and New Orleans. La.