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Rural School Leaflet. 



so abundant is due to the fact that no care whatsoever is taken to have 

 all the piles of horse-manure removed during the summer so that there 

 will be no substance on which the female flies can lay their eggs. 



The presence of flies in the home is a great nuisance, but this is the 

 least important fact connected with them. The adult fly visits all sorts 

 of filth, manure, slop-pails, pig-pens, decaying animals and plants, 

 among which it finds its food. Unless windows and doors are properly 

 screened, flies are constantly passing from the filth to the kitchen and 

 dining room, walking over the food. In passing over the filth, thousands 

 of bacteria cling to the hairs on their bodies and legs and to the 

 pads on their toes. A part of these bacteria are left later on our food 

 or washed off in the milk that we drink. If there should be among the 

 bacteria those producing typhoid fever, tuberculosis, or any one of 

 the numerous bacterial diseases to which man is subject, the possibility 

 of his taking the disease would be very great. The house-fly is so im- 

 portant a factor in the carrying of typhoid fever that an eminent ento- 

 mologist urges that in the future this insect should be known as the 

 typhoid-fly. 



QUOTATIOx\S 



"This is the way the dayHght dies, 

 Cows are lowing in the lane. 

 Fireflies wink o'er hill and plain, 

 Yellow, red, and purple skies — 

 This is the way the daylight dies." 



"My ornaments are fruits; my garments leaves. 

 Woven with cloth of gold, and crimson dyed; 

 I do not boast the harvesting of sheaves. 



O'er orchards and o"er vineyards I preside. 

 Though on the frigid scorpion I ride. 



The dreamy air is full, and overflows 

 With tender memories of the summer-tide. 

 And mingled voices of the doves and crows." 



— Henry W. Longfellow 



