CHAPTER VIII 



THE time which elapses from the laying of the egg to the 

 emerging of the mature fly is usually from eight to ten 

 days, therefore all town garbage should be removed once 

 a week, it not at more frequent intervals. If the manure 

 is taken out to the town lands it should be dumped and 

 spread in a thin layer with pitchforks. It will then be 

 rapidly dried by the sun, and any maggots there might be 

 in it will be shrivelled up. Ordinary garbage may be 

 treated likewise, but the presence of tins and bottles in 

 it spoil the land and render it unsightly. 



When manure and garbage is not destroyed by fire, and 

 cannot be spread out to dry rapidly, it should be thoroughly 

 sprayed with water containing 2 Ib. of sulphate of iron 

 to the gallon, or else smothered with chloride of lime. 

 Another solution to the difficulty is to construct fly-tight 

 pits for manure and garbage. Then, when the pit is full, 

 it should be covered over with about two feet of soil. 

 This soil should be beaten down to harden the surface, 

 as flies have been known to burrow through a foot and 

 more of loose soil or sand, and lay their eggs in the filth 

 beneath. 



In many towns and villages the citizens are permitted 

 to accumulate rubbish in heaps on the ground, and garbage 

 in any kind of old box, tin, or tub. In the public interest 

 this should be prohibited, for the reason that flies readily 



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