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Lye, chloride of lime or blue vitriol 

 water, crude carbolic acid, or any kind 

 of disinfectant may be used. 



Keep flies away from the kitchen. 

 Keep flies out of the dining-room and 

 away from the sick, especially from those 

 ill with contagious diseases. 



Screen all food. Apply this rule not 

 only to food prepared at home, but to 

 foodstuffs ofifered for sale, and especially 

 fruits, salads, and all other things which 

 do not require to be cooked. 



Prevent consumptives from expecto- 

 rating where flies can feed upon it. 



HOW TO KILL FLIES 



To clear rooms of flies carbolic acid 

 may be used as follows : Heat a shovel 

 or any similar article and drop thereon 

 20 drops of carbolic acid. The vapor 

 kills the flies. 



A cheap and perfectly reliable fly 

 poison, one which is not dangerous to 



human life, is bichromate of potash in 

 solution. Dissolve one dram, which can 

 be bought at any drug-store, in two 

 ounces of water, and add a litde sugar. 

 Put some of this solution in shallow 

 dishes and distribute them about the 

 house. 



Sticky fly-paper, traps, and liquid poi- 

 sons are among the things to use in kill- 

 hig flies, but the latest, cheapest, and best 

 is a solution of formalin or formaldehyde 

 in water. A spoonful of this liquid put 

 into a quarter of a pint of water and 

 exposed in the room will be enough to 

 kill all the flies. 



To quickly clear the room where there 

 are many flies, burn pyrethrum powder 

 in the room. This stupefies the flies, 

 when they may be swept up and burned. 



If there are flies in the dining-room of 

 your hotel, restaurant, or boarding-house, 

 complain to the proprietor that the prem- 

 ise are not clean. 



CAMERA ADVENTURES IN THE AFRICAN 



WILDS 



Photographs by A. Raddyffe Dugviorc. Copyright, igio, by Doubleday , Page & Co. 



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O stand before a charging rhino- 

 w ceros, holding a fifteen-pound 

 %. camera, and to wait deliberately 

 until the beast is only a few feet away 

 before releasing the shutter, knowing all 

 the while that only an unerring bullet 

 from his companion can turn aside the 

 leviathan and save the photographer from 

 being tossed 15 yards, is surely as great 

 a test of physical and moral courage as 

 any soldier would like to undergo. The 

 volume which contains Mr Dugmore's 

 photographs of wild game in Africa and 

 also his experiences in obtaining these 

 photographs, is one of the most thrilling, 

 inspiring, and instructive books published 

 in many years.* 



Through the courtesy of Messrs Dou- 

 bleday, Page & Company, the N.\tional 

 Geographic Magazine is able to reprint 



* "Camera Adventures in the Afri:an Wilds." 

 A. Radclyffe Dugmore, pp. 250. with 140 photos 

 from life. SK' x ii inches. Doubleday, Page & 

 Co., 1910. $6.00. 



eleven of the one hundred and forty re- 

 markable photographs given to the pub- 

 lic by Mr Dugmore. The photographs 

 are far more wonderful and beautiful 

 than those by the German, C. G. Schill- 

 ings, which excited so much enthusiasm 

 several years ago, and which were de- 

 scribed and illustrated in this magazine 

 in August, 1907. 



Readers will probably find an interest- 

 ing debate in the question whether photo- 

 graphing rhinos or photographing lions 

 by flashlight is the more nerve-racking 

 occupation. 



Mr Dugmore secured his flashlights 

 of lions in the following manner: He 

 built a small hut of branches, open on 

 one side. Outside the hut he arranged 

 the flashlight and three cameras focused 

 on a dead carcass, a zebra or hartebeest, 

 a few feet away. At night he took his 

 position in the hu^ and waited for the 

 lions to appear. 



