hodge] FLIES AS A NATURE-STUDY PROBLEM 95 



Co-operative good will must be the watch word and keynote of 

 the whole campaign. It can, thus, be made a good natured 

 game, and one of the most educative and enjoyable the community 

 ever played. When this subject was new, it was not possible to 

 secure the necessary co-operation. Now, is it too much to hope 

 that everyone knows enough to, at least, try to play his part? 

 Very few flies live through the winter in most sections of the 

 United States. They come out of winter quarters hungry and 

 if our traps are set and baited for them the day they first appear 

 in the spring, they may all catch themselves, before they begin 

 to lay. With everybody co-operating intelligently it would be 

 wonderfully easy, and the best of good fun, to win the whole 

 fight before the first of Jure and then enjoy the entire summer 

 free from the time-old, world-wide plague and pest, "The house fly — 

 disease carrier." 



Conclusions, i. Breeders, not breeding material, are the real 

 source of all the flies of a season. 



2 . If your out-door trap is not catching all the flies in the barn- 

 yard, or back yard, find out where the others are feeding and 

 put a stop to it by burning, burying or covering fly tight. 



3. One offended neighbor can easily raise flies enough out of 

 spite to vitiate the best efforts of the rest of the community. 



4. Be sure your plan of campaign enlists every home. Arrange 

 to take care of all homes that are short-handed, have no children 

 in school, are too busy or too poor, are foreign and unable to 

 read or too ignorant or stupid to do their share. 



5. Study the er.emy and the problem so as to make the best of 

 difficulties and failures in order to more complete success the 

 next season. 



6. Do the best you can to make garden or farm plans to get all 

 fly breeding material on or in the soil daily. Anyway, get the 

 breeders. 



7. Quote Moses to those who claim that flies were created "for 

 some good purpose." All we ask is : " There remained not one." 



