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Not less than 95 per cent of the pests are bred in the stable. 



All stables should have a manure bin with a door at the side and a 

 wire screen on the top, that the larva deposited in the manure before 

 it was placed in the bin will be screened when hatched, and as flies seek 

 light and come to the top of the bin they can be easily killed by burning 

 paper or some other device. 



The fly has a thirst only equalled by his hunger; place a dish of 

 poisoned water in the stable and a greater part of the flies hatched 

 there will be killed. 



Flies are nature's scavengers, fulfilling the same function that some 

 bacteria do, but become an intolerable nuisance and danger when enter- 

 ing human dwellings and by contamination of food. 



The presence of flies is a direct evidence of careless housekeeping 

 and of the existence of filth in some form about the premises, and are 

 more dangerous than the good housekeeper's terror found in bed rooms. 



Remember that wherever absolute cleanliness prevails there will be 

 no flies. 



Look after the garbage cans. See that they are cleaned, sprinkled 

 with lime or kerosene oil and closely covered. 



Remove all manure from stables every three or four days, and when 

 removed keep in a tight pit or vault, so flies cannot breed in it. 



Lye, Chloride of Lime or Blue Vitriol Water, Crude Carbolic Acid or 

 any kind of disinfectant may be used. 



Keep flies away from the kitchen. Keep flies out of the dining room 

 and away from the sick, especially from those ill with contagious 

 diseases. 



Screen All Food. — Apply this rule not only to food prepared at home, 

 but to food stuffs offered for sale, and especially fruits, salads and all 

 other things which do not require to be cooked. 



Prevent consumptives from expectorating where flies can feed upon it. 



How to Kill Flies, 



To clear rooms of flies carbolic acid may be used as follows: Heat 

 a shovel or any similar article and drop thereon 20 drops of carbolic 

 acid. The vapor kills the flies. 



A cheap and perfectly reliable fly poison, one which is not dangerous 

 to human life, is Bichromate of Potash in solution. Dissolve one dram, 

 which can be bought at any drug store, in two ounces of water, and add a 

 littlj sugar. Put some of this solution in shallow dishes, and distribute 

 them about the house. 



Sticky fly paper, traps and liquid poisons are among the things to 

 use in killing flies, but the latest, cheapest and best is a solution of 

 formalin or formaldehyde in water. A spoonful of this liquid put into 

 a quarter of a pint of water and exposed in the room, will be enough to 

 kill all the flies. 



To quickly clear the room where there are many flies, bum 



