THE HOUSE-FLY 



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in detail by Stiles and Lumsden in Farmers' Bulletin 463 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture. This 

 bulletin may be had by writing to the Secretary of Agri- 

 culture, Washington, D.C. The author would advise all 

 who are interested in this subject to obtain a copy of 

 this bulletin. Two simple types of sanitary privies are 

 described in detail and fully illustrated. Each one 

 is simple in con- 

 struction, inexpen- 

 sive, and sanitary. 

 Explicit directions 

 are given for build- 

 ing them, together 

 with a detailed bill 

 of lumber and 

 materials needed. 



Fly traps. 

 There are excellent 

 wire traps for 

 catching flies, that, 

 when baited with 

 some attractive 

 substance, will 

 catch hundreds of 

 these insects. 



C. F. Hodge is very enthusiastic over the use of traps 

 placed out-of-doors, for instance, on garbage cans, to 

 catch the flies before they enter the houses at all. With 

 one of these traps affixed to a garbage can he caught 2500 

 flies in fifty-five minutes (Fig. 8). The cover of the can 

 was held up so that there was a small open space all around 

 through which the flies might enter. After they had once 



FIG. 8. Hodge's trap for garbage can. 



