Insect Specialist H. B, Petty points out the tour Important steps to 



a suctesslul tly-free program to Roger E. Gish of the lAA during 



series of fljr control meetings. 



Fly Control Now 

 In Full Swing 



Sanitation is Most Important 

 Factor in Fly-Free 

 Program, Specialist Says 



IT ALL depends on you now, Mr. John 

 Q. Public. The Illinois fly-free pro- 

 gram for 1949 is now in full swing. 

 It will be a success only so long as 

 everybody cooperates. 



For the past few months the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, the Illinois 

 Natural History Survey, the University 

 of Illinois College of Agriculture, and 

 the State Department of Public Health, 

 have hammered away at the advantages 

 in continuing last year's fly-eradication 

 campaign. 



These organizations have backed the 

 campaign with reams of stories telling 

 the public the benefits of a fly-free com- 

 munity. For the farmer it means an 

 average of $75 more profit. Cows will 

 give more milk and beef cattle will gain 

 faster. The farmer will be rid of a pest 

 and more important he will be wiping out 

 a carrier of more than 20 human diseases, 

 including typhoid, dysentery, tuberculosis, 

 and possibly the dreaded infantile par- 

 alysis. It is, therefore, particularly im- 

 portant to be rid of disease carrying 

 Hies if there are any children in your 

 home. " 



Join the campaign now I Here's what 

 must be done. First of all follow a sani- 

 tation program. Clean up all fly breed- 

 ing places or spray them heavily with 

 DDT. Haul manure and old straw out 

 to the fields twice a week. Spray inside 

 and outside wherever flies roost. Spray 

 windows, doors, ceilings, screens, and 

 walls. Spray trees under which cattle 

 gather. 



DDT should be used everywhere, 

 except in the dairy barn and on dairy 

 cattle where metoxychlor should be used 

 because of the danger of DDT tainting 



milk. Dairy cattle should be sprayed 

 once a week, beef cattle once a month. 



Insect Specialist H. B. Petty says 75 

 per cent ot a successful fly-free campaign 

 depends on good sanitation. And George 

 E. Metzger of the lAA points out that 

 the rest of the job can be done with about 

 $10 worth of spray materials and a little 

 of your time. 



Sounds like a good proposition, doesn't 

 it.' You can't lose. Let's start now! 

 Clean out those fly breeding places and 

 start using that spray gun. 



Work Progresses Rapidly on 

 Two District 4-H Club Camps 



W 



■ ORK is progressing rapidly on two 

 of Illinois' district 4-H Club camps 

 at West Frankfort and Jacksonville 

 in an effort to have them ready for use 

 by July 4. 



'The southern 4-H camp at West Frank- 

 fort expects to have a dining hall, a water 



Working on the foundation of the kitchen for the Western Illinois 4-N cf»b camp In 

 Morgan county are left to right: E, E. lomont, form adviser, Cass county; H. I. West, 

 youth assistant, Madison; Wayne Stapf, assistant farm adviser, Macoupin; Lyie O. Kerley, 

 assistant farm adviser, Sangamon; L, I. Fuchs, form adviser. Pike; and Hay Watson, farm 



adviser. Mason, 



system, sanitary facilities, and roads con- 

 structed by the first week in July. The 

 southern camp comprises 65 acres on a 

 60-year lease from the city of West 

 Frankfort and 25 acres donated by the 

 city Kiwanis Club. It has a mile and a 

 half shoreline fronting a lake. 



W. C. Anderson, Jackson county farm 

 adviser, said $20,000 had been raised 

 for the camp. He estimated that about 

 800 youngsters would use it this summer. 

 The southern camp will ser\e 26 counties. 



The western 4-H camp south of Jack- 

 sonville on Lake Jacksonville is in about 

 the same stage of development as the 

 southern camp. Two weeks ago work 

 was progressing rapidly on a kitchen and 

 dining hall and work was about to be 

 started on roads, water and sewage dis- 

 posal systems. 



Farm Adviser Ray Watson of Mason 

 county estimated that more than 1,000 

 youngsters from 28 counties would attend 

 the camp this year. The 78-acre wooded 

 site with a mile-long lake shore line was 

 leased from the city of Jacksonville for 

 60 years. Watson said $8,000 had been 

 raised for the camp and that a campaign 

 for more money would be conducted this 

 summer. 



JUNE. 1949 



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