Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1917-06-06
NOW IS TINE TO SWAT FLY
This is of Prime Importance as San
itary Measure

As practical me asure of prepared
ness, the disease-carrying house fly
must be eliminated. American mill.
tary records show that it causes more
de9t rs than the enemy.
KILL FLIES AND SAVE LIVES
Kill at once every fly you can find
and burn his body.
Observers say that there 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 trillions less
this summer.
Clean up your own premises: see and
insist that your neighbors DO likewise
Especially clean ''out-of-the W v
places, = and every nook and Granny.
Flies will not so where there is
nothing to eat and their principal
diet Is too filthy to mention.
The fly has no equal as germ Gear
rier": as many as five hundred million
germs have been found in aud on the
body Of single fly.
1t is definitely known that the fly is
the carrier of the germs of typhoid
( fever: IL is widely believed that it is
also the carrier of other diseases.
/ including possibly infantile paralysis.
The very presence ola fly is d signal
and notification that honsekeeper is
uncleanly and inefficient
do not wait until the insects begiG
| to poster; anticipate the annoyance.
April, May and June are the best
months TO conduct an anti-ny cam
paign.
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 cites
Kill flies and save lives
RECIPES FOR KILLING FLIES
The United States Gov erument
makes the following suggestions for
the destruction of house dies; For
maldehyde and sodium salicylate are
! the two best fly poisOns Both are SUI
perlor 10 arsenic. The 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 or SOLUTION
A formaldehyde solution Of approxi-
mately the correct strength may be
made by adding teaspoonfuIs Of the
concentrated formaldehyde solution.
commercially known as formaIin, 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 pint of water,
CONTAINERS FOR SOLUTIONS
a container such as shown above
has been found convenient for auto
matically keeping the solution always
available for flies to drink. An ordi-
nary, thin-walled drinking glass is
filled or partially filed with the solu-
ton. a saucer, or small plate, in
which is placed a piece of white blot
ting paper cut the size of the dish. is
put bottom 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 aud more liquid flows into
the lower receptacle. Thus the paper
is always kept moist.
OTHER SIMPLE PREvENTIVES
Any odor pleasing to man is offensive
to the fly and vice versa, and will
drive them away.
Take FIVE cents worth of oil Of la
vender, mix it with the same quantity
of water, put it in a common glass
atomizer and spray it around the rooms
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, miguonette, heliotrope
and white clover are offensive to dies.
They especially dislike the odor of
hOney-suckle and hop blossoms.
According to a French scientist flies
have intense hatred for the color blue.
Rooms decorated in blue viii help TO
keep out the dies.
Mix together one tablespoonful of
cream, one of ground black pepper
and one of brown sugar. This mixture
is poisonous to flies. Put in saucer,
darken the room except one window
and in that set the saucer.
To clear the house of flies, burn
pyrethrum powder. This stupefes the
tlies, but they must be SWEPT UP and
BURNED.
RECIPES FOR STABLES, ETC.
Borax is especially valuable around
farms and out of doors One pound
of borax to twelve bushels of manure
will be found desirable as a poison
without injuring its manurial qualities
or farm stock. Scatter the borax over
the manure and sprinkle with water.
Lye, chloride of lime, or copperas
(sulphate of from dissolved in water,
crude carbolic acid, or any kind of
disinfectant may De used in aults.
Ole Quean has moved his shoe re-
pairing shop from Hendrickson' S store