The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1920-08-13
Local Relief Society
Will Fight Flies

The Relief society has decided to
fght-to wage truceless war against
our loathesome and degraded enemy,
the fly
! The following facts have been
compiled by members of this society
ness
The unprepared community, arous-
ed from lethargy by pestilence often
resorts to hysterical measures for
the protection that should have been
established as a quiet and conserva-
tive system of municipal hygiene
Municipal sanitary reform is usually
inspired by great epidemic, not
withstanding the fact that many epi-
denies can be foretoid, and also that
it is easier, better and cheaper to
prevent disease than to cure the sick.
Now is he time that the war on
estimated that one female fly is ca
pable of producing 506,250,000 off
spring in one month. Strict santa
tion is the only means of elimination.
| The female fly always seeks the most
advantageous place for the deposit OF
her eggs. Usually inthe upper layers
of manure piles, about stables, dir
, ty alley ways, garbage heaps and
slaughter houses When the most
favorable place, that is, the manure
pile, is not available, she finds her
> breeding place elsewhere.
The female fly lays on an average
of 12O eggs at each setting on warm
days, and when in the upper layers
of a manure pile, these eggs hatch in
, about 12 hours The larva period
lasts about days, after which the
matured or developed fly becomes
equally active with it's parent and is
able to go on reproducing its specie.
The important time in the eradica-
tion and destruction of flies is appar-
ent and should begin now. This will
!, be accomplished by the removal of
T. any material in which the fly may
breed. Health education has done
much toward the eradication of the
a fly, yet we have in our community
y certain manifest carelessness, not
only among the ignorant, but among
those who should know better, in
J. permitting breeding places to exist
r undisturbed.
There are few people who would
not consider it disgrace to have
d, their homes infested with bed bugs
:, The housewife would work day and
night waging war on this pest - ye'
the bed bug is far from being as fill
thy and dirty as the hairy-leggef
- house fly.
DR. Thompson of the North Carroll
ma state board of health says ina re
cent bulletin:
. LAS a mater of unprejudiced fact
barring the sting of the bite and thu
odor of the encounter, he bed bug i
- much the more eligible companion
whether at bed or at board, but if
bed bug, comparatively clean @
habit, crawls over your plate, tabl
ID and food as the house fly crawls
,s fresh from the foulest filth, VIII
could eat or even sit at the table fo
moment. / am not making a ple
j., for the elevation of the social statu
of my nocturnal friend who love
darkness better than light, but l ar
declaring that his deeds are no
nearly SO evil and destructible a
IL those Of the house fly who can boas
~ Of it's love of light and filth
Then il each individual woul
make a careful survey of his prem
ia ses, looking for the possible place
r. where the mother fly may lay he
ay eggs, remove this possibility an
keep it removed, how much would b
accomplished
:" That your neighbor may permit
ns breeding place for flies to exist is n
~ reason why you should do the sam
Instruct your neighbor and show hil
the folly of his ways. If the larv
st are already Matched when you inst
ng tute your search, which larva sho
an themselves small white an
brownish colored maggots massed t,
gether, depending upon their age {
re to color and size, good way to d
n. stroy them is to sprinkle little pa
,r affine oil over the embryo flies an
their destruction is assured. r.
member that one female fly kille
during the early part Of the mont
in of May destroys the possibility Of II
If. proouctioh OF 1our Dliiion hies py u
or fifteenth of September.