PROJECTS 635 



If your house is equipped with screens of larger mesh and you 

 are troubled with mosquitoes that squeeze in between the wires, 

 rub the screens every night before dark with a cloth moistened with 

 kerosene. If you dislike the odor of kerosene, try the more expen- 

 sive oil of pennyroyal. 



Tin Cans as Breeding Places. A single tin can may catch enough 

 water from a rain to breed a multitude of mosquitoes. Before tin 

 cans are thrown on the rubbish heap, punch them full of holes or 

 knock the bottoms out of them. Tin cans carelessly thrown on 

 vacant lots make a neighborhood look slovenly and furnish homes 

 for immense families of neighborhood mosquitoes. 



The following Farmers' Bulletins dealing with the subject of 

 mosquitoes may be had on application to the United States De- 

 partment of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. : 



"Some Facts about Malaria," Farmers' Bulletin No. 450. 



"The Yellow Fever Mosquito," Farmers' Bulletin No. 547. 



"Remedies and Preventives against Mosquitoes," Farmers' Bul- 

 letin No. 444. 



PROJECT LV. How to Fight the Fly, pages 454-455 (Commu- 

 nity Project) 



Fighting the fly is not an individual project ; it is a community 

 project. If you live in a small town, you may be able to interest 

 various organizations in the project. If you live in a large city, 

 you may be able to wake up your neighborhood. You can do some- 

 thing and should do everything in your power on your own premises ; 

 but cooperation is necessary if the fly is to be conquered. 



Boy Scouts, Neighborhood Improvement Clubs, Civic Leagues, 

 Women's Clubs, High School Science Clubs, Commercial Clubs, 

 Chambers of Commerce, and other organizations have succeeded 

 in making some communities almost flyless. The community must 

 be educated to the menace of the fly before anything worth while 

 can be accomplished, and this requires the combined effort of civic 

 clubs. Some day people will wonder that we tolerated such a men- 



