THE HOUSE-FLY 



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in detail by Stiles and Lumsden in Farmers' Bulletin 463 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture. This 

 bulletin may be had by writing to the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D.C. The author would advise all 

 who are interested in this subject to obtain a copy of 

 this bulletin. Two simple types of sanitary privies are 

 described in detail and fully illustrated. Each one 

 is simple in con- ^gs^*^ 



struction, inexpen- 

 sive, and sanitary. 

 Explicit directions 

 are given for build- 

 ing them, together 

 with a detailed bill 

 of lumber and 

 materials needed. 



Fly traps. — 

 There are excellent 

 wire traps for 

 catching flies, that, 

 when baited with 

 some attractive 

 substance, will 

 catch hundreds of 

 these insects. 





Fig. 8. — Hodge's trap for garbage can. 



C. F. Hodge is very enthusiastic over the use of traps 

 placed out-of-doors, for instance, on garbage cans, to 

 catch the flies before they enter the houses at all. With 

 one of these traps affixed to a garbage can he caught 2500 

 flies in fifty-five minutes (Fig. 8). The cover of the can 

 was held up so that there was a small open space all around 

 through which the flies might enter. After they had once 



