Westborougii, on a score of 88 points. His is an old wooden barn 

 with a large cellar. Manure is thrown into the cellar, which is dark 

 and cool. The stable is whitewashed and well screened. There are 

 small cellar windows around the cellar, but those directly over the 

 manure are screened, and flies did not seem to come in through the 

 others. There were few flies in the stable and none at all in the milk 

 room, which was screened and somewhat shaded. Two visits were 

 made to this place and no flies were seen in the milk room although 

 there were flies outside. The cows were sprayed daily with a disin- 

 fectant manufactured locally. The same disinfectant was sprinkled 

 around the floor of the milk room and may have driven the flies out. 

 The stable and milk room were screened. Chloride of lime and ashes 

 were used in the privy. 



The fifth prize, of $60, is awarded to Mr. Agostino Visocchi, 

 North Sudbury, on a score of 80 points. Here was found a good, 

 clean, well-constructed stable, with cement floors built on plans of 

 his own. Leather strings were attached to the top of the door frame 

 for the purpose of brushing the flies off the cows' backs as they 

 entered the stable. There were but few flies in the stable. The 

 windows were fully screened everywhere. Twenty-three fly papers, 

 twenty-eight small fly traps and ten large ones were distributed about 

 the stable. He keeps forty-three cows. The milk room was well 

 screened and clean and also well supplied with flj' traps. There 

 were less than a dozen flies in the milk room. The horses are kept 

 in a separate stable. The manure is not treated, but a pit is being 

 made to receive it. No one had taken more pains to exclude flies 

 than this Italian farmer, but he has not yet prevented fly breeding. 



The sixth prize, of $50, is awarded to Mr. Jose Pontes, Swansea, 

 on the score of 76 points. He has a wooden barn or cattle stable, 

 which was found well cleaned, and sprayed with lime and salt fre- 

 quently. The cows are sprayed daily with cattle oil. Manure is 

 stored in the barn cellar altogether. No signs of fly breeding. The 

 heap was frequently sprayed with lime ^ and salt and covered with a 

 mixture of cotton and wool waste from neighboring mills. Spray 

 was made by taking lime and water and putting in a considerable 

 quantity of salt, which was used with a spraying machine as white- 

 wash. No fly traps were used. The milk room was screened. There 

 were but few flies in the stable and none in the milk room. 



The scores of the other contestants were 69, 66, 62, 60, 54, 52,. 49, 

 36, 25 and 15. 



It appears from the above report that fly breeding may be 

 to a considerable extent prevented by properly caring for 

 horse manure and the contents of privies,^ in which a large per 



1 Lime is not advocated in this connection because, in contact with manure, it liberates 

 ammonia, thus causing economic loss. 



- Privy vaults should be tight and fly proof. 



