pending removal, no decaying organic material permitted to accumulate on 

 the premises, and, not least in importance, the household garbage can 

 should be cleaned and scoured daily, and when in use be always kept well 

 covered. Garbage should be stored in metal receptacles with metal tight- 

 htting covers, and all filth-reeking wooden garbage boxes or leaky slop 

 pails abolished. Do not permit the women of the household to dispose of 

 kitchen slop water, in cases where there is no kitchen plumbing, by 

 throwing it, day by day, over the same spot near the kitchen door, for the 

 spot will become offensive and necessarily will attract insects. 



Coming to remedies to be applied inside the farmer's house, it should be 

 pointed out that there is no serious or real difficulty in dealing successfully 

 with the plague of flies, which exists in many places. "The great secret 

 of how to get rid of flies is minute cleanliness in everything." 



The up-to-date farmer screens all his windows and outside doors to 

 keep out the insects, but there are still countless unscreened farmhouses to 

 which flies have free access. Of greatest importance are, of course, the 

 places where the food is kept, prepared, or eaten, in other words, the 

 pantry, the kitchen and the dining room. 



The protection which well-made and well-kept window and door 

 screens afford, while of much value during the "summer months, is perhaps 

 of the greatest importance during the fall, when the first cool days appear, 

 with their tendency to drive the flies indoors. Surely it would seem as if 

 it were more than a mere coincidence that this is also the season of the 

 year when typhoid fever is of most frequent occurrence. 



It is advisable to screen also all food stored in the vegetable or fruit 

 cellar, and especially to protect such foods as do not require cooking, like 

 salads, celery, fruit, milk, etc. 



The subject of screening houses will be once more referred to under 

 the heading of mosquito control. 



Where a farmer, after having attended to the stable manure pits and 

 privy vaults, whence the vast majority of flies come, still finds them 

 trying to enter the house, he should remember that their presence is always 

 a positive indication of the existence of some form of filth in or near the 

 premises. Hence he should institute a special inspection and search for 

 other breeding places about or around the house, and when he finds them, 

 he should forthwith set about to destroy them. If there are neighbors not 

 far away, he should induce them to cooperate by having them keep their 

 premises and yards clean and burn up all rubbish. He should impress them 

 with the fact, and always himself bear in mind, that filth and food are the 

 two principal attractions for flies, and that their passage from the first to 

 the second must be prevented at all hazards, if orie \$fshes to avoid disease. 



After the meals all food remnants should be carefully removed and 

 covered up or burnt. Where cuspidors are used in houses, they should 

 be kept scrupulously clean, scoured daily with hot water and soap, and 

 disinfected from time to time. 



The farmer should protest against the open exposure of food at the 

 country store where he buys his supplies, and also keep a watchful eye for 

 flies in the country butcher shop and on the itinerant butcher's meat wagon. 



