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Hetsch (H.). CMOupcKafl naea. |8il)oria]i snro.] « npaKTMHecKafl 



IVIeAMmiHa.» [Pmrliml Mrdicin"]. jio. 1, 11)15, p. 2(;. (Taken 

 from— « BtCTHMK-b PyCCKOM flpilKnaflHOtl 3HTOMonoriM» , by 



permission of the Editors.) [Messewjer of Russian applied Entomo- 

 logy], Kiev, ii, no. 1, 1915. 

 It is stated that flies which have taken up bacilli from unburicd 

 bodies of animals, that have died of Siberian sore [anthrax], or from 

 the blood of diseased aiiimals, are able to carry the infection for, 

 approximately, two hours and over a distance of not less than 

 1| miles. The most dangerous carrier of anthrax is stated to be 

 Stonioxys calcitrans. 



SviRiDov (D.). KaK-b ocBoOoflMTb CKOTHbie flBopbi OTT, wiyx-b. [How 

 to free cattle-yards from flies.]— « XyTOpflHMH-b.» [Chulorianin], 

 Poltava, no. 30-31, 15th August 1915, pp. 675-676. 



The use of sticky paper is recommended as the best remedy for freeing 

 cattle-sheds from flies ; the adhesive is prepared from 1 part of resin 

 melted over a fire with two parts of rape oil, adding afterwards 1 part 

 of thick turpentine and, after it has cooled, some honey or spirits, and 

 smearing it on sheets of newspaper. Other remedies include :-— 

 Whitewashing the walls with milk of lime to which alum is added in 

 the proportion of 2| lb. for each 3 gallons of lime ; painting the windows 

 of the stables blue in summer ; covering manure-heaps with earth 

 during the summer; planting walnuts near cattle-yards, as these 

 trees are avoided by flies and mosquitos. In order to protect 

 domestic animals in the open, smearing them with pig-fat boiled with 

 laurel leaves for 5 minutes or with fish oil to which some laurel or 

 clove oil is added, is advised. 



ScHOPPLER (H.). Der Kresolpuder, ein Schutz- und Vertilgungspuder 

 des Ungeziefers im Felde. [Cresol powder, a preventive and destruc- 

 tive powTler for vermin in the field.] — Milnchener Medizi^iisclie 

 Wochenschr., Miinich, Ixii, no. 33, 17th August 1915, 

 pp. 1137-1138. 

 As a military surgeon, the author found that 3 per cent, cresol 

 powder (tricresol powder) was markedly successful in combating fleas. 

 The men powdered their skins thickly and then rubbed the powder 

 well in. Their clothes were also treated. This immediately got rid 

 of the plague of fleas and it became possible to remain in much-infested 

 buildings without inconvenience. On one occasion, the staff had to 

 spend the night in a room adjoining a stable, and although the floor 

 swarmed with fleas, the officers were not attacked. 



RouBAUD (E.). Production et auto-destruction par le fumier de 

 cheval des mouches domestiques. [Production and destruction 

 of domestic flies bv horse manure.] — C. B. hebdom. Ac. Set., 

 Paris, clxi, no. 11, i3th September 1915, pp. 325-327. 



Recent researches carried out on manure from military stables, 

 have led to the following conclusions with regard to the importance 



