The copper era and Morenci leader., 1921-03-25
SWAT THE FLY

The warm sunshiney days of Spring are upon us and though we welcome their coming with pleasure we hard 1y need be reminded, perforce, that these same pleasant days fan into ex- istence insect life that has lain dor mant through the winter months.
 It has long since been an accepted truism that an ounce of prevention is worth pound of cure and if we are to eliminate in any degree the fly | is the time to begin.
 Flies should be kept out of our houses, killed if they enter, and pre- stables. manure hepas, swill pails and all filthy places.
 Flies are filthy, they are born in on filth and with filth sticking to their legs and bodies they feed and walk on the food which has been prepared for human beings to eat
 Flies are dangerous They kill more people than wild beasts and poisonous snakes. Many of these beasts and snakes never get chance to kill any human being. but any one of tue millions of flies found in most of our towns and cities has a chance if he comes into house carving twp { hold germs. Of killing whole family.
 You have been told why YOU should prevent the breeding of flies. this is HOW TO DO IT:
 Most house flies in cities are hatch ed from eggs which have lain in horse manure. Some breed in other in other forms Of filth. such as garbage cans. heaps of refuse in back yards, etc. The fly lays 120 or more eggs at a time These, if they are not disturbed become maggots in about twelve hours, ir from : to s days more the maggots enter the pupa state as : caterpillars do and after from to days, come out of the earth, or manure in which they buried themselves. in the form of flies. ready in a few days to become the fathers and mothers ! of large families. They breed so rapidly that in one summer the chi'- '--- nd ~r.rrdchildren of one pair of flies nav number thousands of : millions. and emember, that the germs tbev carry multiply much faster than the flies.
 To prevent flies from breeding: scraeo stables. if possible. Remove the manure at least twice a week. If 7iC~ Fari1 t0 b~aod n otGTed manure. they may be killed by thoroughly spraying it with kerosene or Paris Green and then pouring on erCugh water to wash the oil or poison well in.
 It is well to abolish old fashioned out-houses when possible Where this cannot be done liberal amount of lime should be used. applied in small amounts daily. Chloride of Lime is bette than slacked lime. but slacked lime is better than none at all. Gar bage cans should be throughly clean sed after emptying and the contents should be sprinkled with crude oil, lime or kerosene oil. Keep garbage cans closley covered unless you have a fly trap attached to them. Such traps may be obtained at most hard ware stores.
 Screen the doors and windows nf 1 your houses. especially those of the kitchen. dining room and pantry. If you cannot do this, at least screen the food itself, especially the milk in which germs multiply with more than ordinary rapidity.
 ' Screen sick rooms. or, at least. the bed of the patient and do not allow H'"G 70 have access to the excreta which should he treated with chloride of lime or some other disinfectant
 Screens for doors and windows are especially needed in towns which have no sewer system. or in which the sewer drains into stream on tho banks of which flies swarm, attracted by the filth from the sewers.
 If flies get into house in spite of ] screens they may be killed or trapped.
 Sticky fly paper and variety of ] traps may be used as we'll as poison ed fly paper.
 Here are some fly don'ts:
 Don't allow flies in your house. Don't permit them near your food especially milk.
 Don't buy food-stuffs where flies are toIorated.
 Don't have feeding places where 1 flies can load themselves with the deiections from typhoid or dysenteric patients.
 Don't allow your fruits and confec- tons to be exposed to the swarms of flies.
 Don't let f;e;s crawl over thr babys mouth and swarm upon the nipple o. it'" n'Fsing file.
 ,emember tIiat where th.rn is rl filth thcre will be nc flies.
 Clean up your own premises. If you still have flies it is because your neighbors are harborine filth. If they won't clean up ask the Board of Health to force them to do so.
 You are not safe from disease car ried by flies, unless your grocer, vou' butcher. vcur baker-everyone fror -11Drr 1,,,,, are. See that VOLT town has a food screening ordinance. and that it is enforced.
 When merchants screen their goods