HOUSEHOLD INSECTS AND THEIR REMEDIES II3 



IV. 



Take some jars, mugs or tumblers, fill them half full with 

 soapy water; cover them as jam pots are covered with a piece of 

 paper, either tied down or tucked under a rim. Let this be rubbed 

 inside with wet sugar, mollasses, honey or jam or anything sweet. 

 Cut a small hole in the center large enough for a fly to enter. 

 The flies settle on the top attracted by the smell of the bait; they 

 then crawl through the hole, to feed upon the sweet beneath. 

 Meanwhile the warmth of the weather causes the soapy water 

 to ferment, and produces a gas which overpowers the flies and they 

 drop down into the vessel. Thousands may be destroyed this way 

 and the traps last a long time. 



v. 



Fly traps and tanglefoot also help in reducing the amount of 

 flies. 



VI. 



It is not always possible to avoid collections of manure, but 

 these collections or piles may be sterilized successfully and made 

 impossible as breeding nests simply by the generous Histribution 

 of sulphate of iron, in liquid or dry form. It gives better results 

 than kerosene, for it does not harm -the manure, and the cost is 

 very light. It penetrates everywhere. By keeping constantly 

 in the stable a barrel of this solution of a strength of about two 

 pounds for each gallon of water and using a common sprinkler can, 

 the sterilization would be accomplished at an approximate cost of 

 les^ than i cent per horse per day. Making sanitary all other 

 breeding spots, such as garbage cans and privy boxes may be 

 accomplished by the liquid solution or dry sugar sulphate of iron 

 being distributed freely, thus checking in the earliest stages the 

 development of fly maggots. *And this is the time for effective work, 

 because the fly larvae or eggs are exceedingly tenacious of life. 

 Sulphate of iron, being a deodorizer, also removes from the manure 

 pile, the urine soaked stable drains, the outhouse and the garbage 

 pile the pungent ammoniacal fumes and other offensive smells. 

 Use of this chemical in cellars where rotting vegetables may be 

 found purifies the air. 



Cloride of lime is also good. 



Mosquitoes. 

 There are a great many species of mosquitoes. They are 



