American Falls press. [volume] (American Falls, Idaho) 1907-1937, 1915-05-06
HOUSE FLY READY TO
BEGIN ANNUAL RAID.
Startling Evidence Secured Against
The Insect by the Pure Food De-
partment of State.

partment Of State.
Following the sensational exposure
in he confidential letter 'ourd In the
files of the pure food and sanitary de-
partment by Commissioner ]. X. White
of House Fly & Co., a quiet investiea-
ton has been in progress by the COM
missioner and his deputies as to the
operations of this company in Idaho
with the result some startling evidence
has been secured. With reference to II
the commissioner issued the following
statement:
They toll not, neither do they spin.
but when it comes to bringing forth
posterity, they have got Teddy Roose-
velt's hobby beat a mile.
About this time of ~ year Mr.. and
Mrs. House Fly leave their winter quar-
tiers and HE themselves to the nearest
manure pile where Mrs. House Fly
makes her nest and lays one hundred
n twenty eggs at one sitting. AS a
layer, Mrs. House Fly has got the
White Leghorn hen beat to a FRAGILE.
In II hours, under favorable conditions
these eggs hatch into mogots, and un-
less picked up by the old hen and con-
Verted into hen eggs, they crawl down
INTO the manure and eat this luscious
substance for about a week. After lay
ing dormant in the warmth of his ma
nure pile for about another week, they
come out full Pledged flies, dressed in
an Easter Suit minus that hat and split
skirt, and proceed to give the race sui
eide theory another blow in the solar
plexus.
The fly is born in the manure pile.
He feeds on ii when young, and. like
most youngsters, he fails to rise above
his environments. There is no place
too filthy to repel the fly. The fly has
six legs with 1872 hairs on each leg and
a small sponge on the bottom of each
foot.
Washes Feet In Milk.
In the garbage can, cuspidor or open
privy vault, or on a decayed rotten cat
rat or dog, he wades around, soaking
his feet and covering his hairy legs
with filth. Then he files into your din
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hairy legs on the bread and the edge
of your plate and washes his feet I'm
the milk.
although filth is bad and not very
wholesome, it is Tot the worst that Mr..
and Mrs. House Fly carry around with
them. With their hairy legs, and
sponge feet. they gather up, while
crawling around open sewers, privies.
stables. garbage piles and diseased
rotten carcases, all kinds of germs
such as typhoid fever, tuberculosis. in
fantile paralysis, cholera infantum.
etc.
Flies kill more people than railroad
wrecks, or Wild beasts, or venomous
snakes, Many OF these beasts and
snakes never get a chance to kill any
human being, but any one of the mill
lions of flies found In most of our
towns has a chance of killing a whole
family with typhoid germs.
THE chances of Mr.. Fly carrying any
germs into your house are lessened
100000 0 times if you put the q~uietus
on him now.
THE popular slogan is safety first.
Why not apply this to the fly? If we
can prevent the fly this will be ac-
complishec. Like many other things.
1t can be done if everybody will do his
or her little share. Following are the
steps necessary to do It:
Il. Screen stables II possible.
"2. Remove all manure at least once
a week.
y Keep the manure, while in the
stable I'm a fly tight box and keep It
well sprayed with a solution OF cop
peras on pound te a gallon of water
applied AT the rate of one gallon a day.
where not more than two horses or
cows are kept. II costs about 81 per
hundred pounds, SO the cost of keeping
flies from breeding in a small stable is
about II cent a day. is 1t worth it?
" Outdoor privies should be
screened and fly tight. Use lime
freely. Chloride of lime is better than
Stacked lime, but Stacked lime is better
than Bone.
"5. Garbage cans should be kept
covered and cleaned thoroughly after
emptying and sprayed with lime OF
kerosene oil.
&c. Screen your houses, especially
dining Don and kitchen.
~. Swat every one you see.
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