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THE PESKY FLY has been named 

 public enemy No. 1 again for 1949 

 Yessir, that's right. There's going 

 to be another fly free campaign this 

 year, reports George E. Metzger, 

 field secretary of the Illinois Agricul- 

 tural Association. 



You can't get too much of a good 

 thing and that's about the way it is with 

 killing off flies with DDT. 



When the results of the 1948 fly cam- 



fiaign were tallied by H. B. Petty of the 

 llinois Natural History Survey, they 

 showed that the program had really 

 worked. The figures indicated that 

 about 95,000 farmers sprayed their 

 premises against flies. But here's some- 

 thing of equal importance — 93 per cent 

 of the cooperating farmers expressed 

 completed satisfaction with the results 

 they got on their farms and in their 

 homes. 



About 73 per cent of the dairy cattle 

 in the state were sprayed against flies in 

 1948 and about 50 per cent of the 

 beef cattle. 



It is estimated that the savings to 

 dairymen and beef cattle producers due 

 to the fly campaign was about three 

 million dollars. Now it hardly seems 

 posssible that flies can cause that much 

 trouble around the barn, feedlot and 

 pasture, but the specialists didn't just 

 guess at that three million dollars. 



At arfy rate when the board of di- 

 rectors of the Illinois Agricultural As- 

 sociation looked at the result of the 

 1948 campaign they decided it would 

 be decidely worthwhile to have another 

 this year. 



The same groups that cooperated 



with the lAA in 1948 are ready to pitch 

 in again this year. These include the 

 Extension Service of the University of 

 Illinois, the Illinois Natural History 

 Survey, and the State Department of 

 Public Health. 



County Farm Bureaus and farm ad- 

 visers working with city health authori- 

 ties will direct the local drives. 



The drive will start in April in 

 Southern Illinois and work north. First 

 step will consist of ridding farms and 

 cities of fly-breeding sources. These 

 include decaying plant and animal 

 matter — manure, garbage and rotting 

 straw. 



The cleanup work should be finished 

 before the middle of May in Southern 

 Illinois and before Memorial Day in 

 the Northern area to rob flies of a place 

 to lay their eggs. 



The second step in the state-wide 

 drive will be the farm-by-farm spraying 

 with fly-killing DDT. 



City people as well as farm pet^k 

 will be asked to join in the cam{>aign. 

 The aid of local Chambers of Com- 

 merce, Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions and Ex- 

 change clubs will be sought as well as 

 the local health officer, druggists, hard- 

 ware dealers, women's clubs, American 

 Legion, VFW, local editors, etc. 



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THE statue named "Madonna of the Trail" 

 is the 21st of our series of picturesque and 

 historic scenes of Illinois. It stands a 

 stone's throw from the old statehouse at 

 Vandalia in Fayette county. 

 The statue is situated on Route 40 at what 

 was once the western terminus of the Cumber- 

 land Road. This road was the overland route 

 of many pioneers moving west. It was built 

 by the federal government with the authoriza- 

 tion of President Jefferson and Congress in 

 1806. 



The statue was built as a memorial to the 



'pioneer mothers of the covered wagon days" 



by the Daughters of the American Revolution. 



L A. A. RECOBD 



