Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1917-04-20
KILL THE FLY,
BURN HIS BODY
''The Fly is the Tie that Binds
the Unhealtathy to the
Healthy"
OBSERVERS SAY WILL BE
MORE FLIES THIS YEAR
Merchants Association of New York
Gives Out Recipes and Other
Simple Preventatives.

ODSeTNeTS say J1dt lneTe are many
reasons to believe there will be more
flies this season than for number of
years.
The killing of just one fly NOW
means there will be billions and tril- (
lions less next summer.
Clean up you,own premises; see and
insist that your neighbors do likewise
Especially clean "out-of-th-way-
places" and every nook and Granny.
Flies will go where there is nothing
to eat, and their principal diet is too
filthy to.mention.
The Fly is the Tie that Binds the Tn
healthy TO the Healthy.
The fly has no equal as a germ car
rier; as many as five hundred million
germs have been found in and on the
body of a single fly.
1t is definitely known that the fly
is the carrier of the germs of typhoid
fever; it is widely believed that it. is
also the carrier of other diseases, in
GLIDING possibly infantile paralysis.
The very presence of fly is sig
nal and notification that housekeep-
err is unclean and Inefficient
Do not wait until the insects begin
to poster; anticipate the annoyance.
April, May and June are the best
months to conduct an anti-fy cam
pSign.
The farming and suburban districts
provide ideal breeding places, and the
new born flies do not remain at their
birth place, but migrate, using rail
roads and other means of transporta-
ton, to towns and cities.
Kill flies and save lives!
EDWARD HATCH, JR., Chairman.
The Merchants Association of New
York.
Recipes for Killing Flies.
The United States Government
makes the following suggestions for
the destruction of house flies: For
maldehyde and sodium salicylate are
the two best fly poisons. Both are
superior to arsenic. They have their
advantages for household use. They
are not poison to children; they are
convenient to handle, their dilutions
are simple and they attract the flies
Preparation of Solution.
A formaldehyde solution of approx
imately the correct strength may be
made by adding teaspoonfuls of the
concentrated formaldehyde solution
commercially known as formalin, to
pint of water Similarly, the proper
concentration of sodium salicylate
may be obtained by dissolving tea
spoonfuls of the pure chemical Ia
powder) to a pint of water.
A container such as is described be-
low has been found convenient for au
tomatically keeping the solution al
ways available for flies to drink. An
ordinary thin-walled drinking glass is
filled or partially filled with the So
luton A saucer, or small plate, in
which is placed piece of WHITE
'blotting paper cut the size of the dish
is placed bottum up over the glass.
The whole is then quickly inverted,
match placed under the edge of the
glass, and the container is ready for
use. As the solution dries out Of the
saucer the liquid seal at the edge of
the glass is broken and more liquid
flows into the lower recepticle. Thus
the paper is always kept moist
Other Simple Personalities.
Any odor pleasing to man is often
sive to the fly and vice versa, and will
drive them away.
Take five cents worth of oil of Law
ender, mix it with the same quantity
of water, put it in a common glass
atomizer and spray it around the room
where flies are. In the dining room
spray it lavishly even on the table
linen. The odor is very disagreeable
to flies but refreshing to most people.
Geranium, migonette, heliotrope and
white clover are offensive to Aies,
They especially dislike the odor Of
honeysuckle and hop blossoms,
According to French scientist flies
have intense hatred for the color blue.
Rooms decorated in blue will help to
keep out the flies.
Mix together one tablespoonful of
cream, one of ground black pepper
and one Of brown sugar. This mix