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Most important of all, no heap of garbage, no refuse of food, no filth, should be 

 allowed to accumulate. Burn in the stove all that the pigs cannot eat ; and any necessary 

 rubbish-heap which cannot be otherwise disposed of during the period when burning 



(FiG. 10.) 



The leg, claw, and glue-pads of a fly. highly magnified. 



is illegal, cover it, after each addition of refuse, with a thin layer of earth ; which 

 simple precaution will prevent it from becoming a flies' nursery. If coal-oil is poured 

 over the earth, it will act the more efficaciously. 



CONCLUSION. 



Unfortunately, space does not permit the risks to food to be dealt with which are 

 incidental to careless and dirty methods of handling in transport or while under 

 display in market or store. 



The subject of food-preservation is, indeed, a vast one, calling for much more 

 detail than can be adequately included in one bulletin. It is, however, to be hoped 

 that the reasons given for well-established customs, the suggestions made on points 

 liable to be overlooked by the busy housewife, the hints offered on unsuspected 

 dangers, may add interest to the work of some women, stimulate others to increased 

 exercise of the " eternal vigilance 1 ' often a burden to the unintelligent worker, incite 

 all to a desire for fuller knowledge, and thus promote the welfare of many 

 households. 



