Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1915-08-25
KILL ENEMY OF BABY
DUTY OF ALL IS TO 90 AWAY
WITH THE FLY.
As a DIssemlnatar Of Disease II 10
Recognized That This Pest Can
In No Way Find an
Equal.

prepared by the children's Bureau. United
States Department OF LahorD
No one likes 70 have a single fly
and. much less, swarm of them buzz
ing about him. or lighting on his food.
But in addition to being a nuisance.
the fly IS also a real source OF danger,
owing to the fact that he may carry
the germs of disease from the sick to
the we'll Typhoid fever is known to
be distributed in this way, and II is
believed that other forms of Illness,
including diarrhea, are also carried
about on the hairy feet and legs of the
ordinary house or typhoid" fly.
On this account. it is especially the
baby who needs to be protected from
flies. Awake or asleep. he needs it.
hts milk should be kept out OF their
reach. and his bed or his sleeping
room should be carefully screened
against them, II It Is not possible to
have the whole house and the porch
screened.
The flies that get into the house in
spite of screens should be trapped,
poisoned or swatted. but far more eff
fective than any Of these measures is
that of destroying the fly larvae before
they hatch into full-grown flies.
The favorite breeding place If the
common house fly is in horse manure
In a pile of a thousand pounds there
may be half million maggots ready
to hatch, unless they are destroyed in
the larval stage. as the eggs are
called.
Various substances have been sug-
gested for use upon horse manure in
order to destroy the fly maggots.
Among these are iron sulphate. kero-
sene. chloride of lime, hellebore and
borax. Some of these are too expen.
sive for continued use, and some, such
as borax, when used in too large guam
titles, may be injurious to the crops
upon which the manure so treated is
used.
The United States department OF
agriculture has recently recommended
powdered hellehore as a cheap. safe
and effective substance for the treat
ment of manure "One-half pound OF
powdered hellebore mixed with ten
gallons of water is sufficient to kill the
larvae in eight bushels. or ten cubic
feet of manure. In most places helle
bore is obtainable In 100-pound lots al
a cost of II cents pound. This makes
the cost of the treatment a little lest
than seven-tenths Of cent per bushe
of manure A liberal estimate of tbs
output of manure is two bushels da!
per horse"
After the summer has advanced tht
effort must be made to keep each ind
vidual home as free from the pest al
can be done with screens, fly papers
traps and swatters.
Garbage pals must be kept GOV
cred, and no refuse of any sort shoul'
be allowed to accumulate about tn
premises, to provide breeding ant
feeding places. AS in most othe
things, prevention is far better thai
cure; the time for preventive meas
ures to be most effective is in Apri
and May, when the fly crop is small
There are a great many kinds OF q.
traps on the market Such traps cal
be made at home with little trouble
and the department Of agriculture
Washington, viii send directions upol
request not only for traps, but TO
methods of destroying the eggs be
fore they hatch ints flies. "a home
made fly trap for 20 cents, and Bulle
tin 245.)