The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-07-21
HOME HEALTH CLUB

.ss t. n CEdited by pr. David H. Reeder. Chi " cago.)
 War 1t Home: During all of the excitement of warIike preparations against the enemies of peace and prosperity in, their own countries as ven as in ours, let us not forget that this Is the time of the year when it is necessary to continue the war so well begun in previous years against one Of the greatest enemies of health as &eIl as comfort In the home, and that II the housefly. Year after year have urged my readers in all parts of the country to keep up the fight and | can assure you that the results are apparent in almost an portions of the
 one of the worst offenders in carry- fngt live f1ies from place to place is the rAilroad trains. Az early as the first Of april, when flies were hardly thought of here in Chicago, they were brought in on every train from the South. The Pullman and dining cars &ppeared to be greater offenders than the day coaches and sought for the reason It was not hard to find and could have been easily 'remedied by a little effort on the part of the porters and trainmen.
 While yet in the South the windows and doors of all of the coaches as well as Pullman and dining cars were open and the flies swarmed in; as the train sped on it's way North the windows were gradually closed and the doors of the Pullman and dining cars sell dom opened as the occupants were
 
 {. the steam was turned on and the flies continued to be lively and comfort able while the constantly changing passengers of tie day coaches opened ths 1oors and the flies soon disa z Geared " FIJI have noticed also that the. rail- roads are serious offenders in supply ing breeding places for the pests at letarly all of their small stations in the form of the vile old fashioned open privy vault. A box of dry sand of af slacked lime could easily be kept In these places and once daily the em- ployes that use the places should be required to cover all of the fecal mat ter, deposited with the sand or lime.
 The Department of Agriculture at Washington is certainly doing tre- Inendous work in it's continuous ham, mering away on the subject of fly de- lstruction, but my observatt tton to date Is that the cities are getting more ben- cit from this free information than Is the country population, although 1t is intended for the farmers especial benefit. The reason appears to be that cities are more active and prompt in applying the information that is so freely supplied and without cost to the Individual.
 The latest Farmers Bulletin issued e5y the department is number IRA and entitled "Flytraps and Their Opera ton" This bulletin is free for the asking and it gives such simple work ing plans for the construction of prac- 2 fical homemade fly traps that almost any one could make one easier than they could think up an excuse for not making one. The cost is practically nothing. Four wooden barrel hoops f6ur laths, four strips of wood one and one-half inches wide by one-half \ inch thick, (cut from an old box will dbl. 24 inches long, 61 inches of 12 or 14 4mesh galvanized s---oAning "A inches wilde for the sides and Al inches of similar material Al inches wide for { the cone, an ounce of carpet tacks, a handful of small nails and you have I all of the material except the top which Is to be made out of a barrel head.
 Fly traps work on the principle of Knowledge that flies almost always walk upward and not, downward on any surface upon which they alight The fait is placed under the cone in- eide of the trap and MT. Fly walks ur the side of the cone and through the email opening at the top into the trap By all means send postal card re- quest to the department and ask foi Eafmers' Bulletin number 734 and thefe you will zee the detailed plani Tor several traps that will help you ir the war on typhoid flies and all othel Dy pests that are so annoying as vel 1G dangerous.
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