fnsecf Speclaffsf H. S. Petty points out the four jmporfonf steps to 



a successful fly-free program to Roger E. Gish of the lAA during 



series of fly control meetings. 



Fly Control Now 

 In Full Swing 



Sanitation is Most Important 

 Factor in Fly-Free 

 Program, Specialist Says 







NJECJiCiDirs 



fOLLOW THfiOUGtf / 



11 AI.I. dtpciiJs on you now, Mr. Jolui 

 Q. Public. Tlic Illinois Hy-trcc pro- 

 gram tor iyi9 is now in full swiny. 

 It will Ix.- a success only so long as 

 everybody cooperates. 



For tiie past tew months the Illinois 

 Agricultural Association, tlie Illinois 

 Natural History Survey, the University 

 of Illinois College of Agriculture, and 

 the State Department of Public Health, 

 ha\e hammered away at the advantages 

 in continuing last year's Hy-eradication 

 campaign. 



These organizations have backed the 

 campaign with reams of stories telling 

 the public the benefits of a fly-free com- 

 munity. I"or the farmer it means .\n 

 average of SI') more profit. Cows will 

 give more milk and beef tattle will gain 

 faster. The farmer will be rid of a pest 

 and mare 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- 

 |sortant to be rid of disease carrying 

 tiies if there are any children in your 



Jom tlic lanipaign now ! Here s what 

 must Ix? done. I'irst of all lollow a sani- 

 tation program, (lean up all tly breed- 

 ing plates or spray them heavily with 

 DD'l . Haul manure and old straw out 

 to the tields twice a week. Spray inside 

 and outside wherever flies roost. Spray 

 windows, doors, tellings, screens, and 

 walls. Spray trees under which cattle 

 gather. 



DDT should be used everywhere, 

 except in the dairy barn and on dairy 

 tattle where metoxythlor should be usetl 

 because of the danger of DDT taintin;: 



milk. Dairy tattle should he sprayed 

 oiiie a week, beet tattle oiuc a month. 



Inject Specialist H. H. Petty says ^=> 

 per ttiit ot a ^.utte-l^tul fly-lrte tampaign 

 depends on ,good sanitation. And Cjet>rge 

 H. Metzger of the lAA points out that 

 the rest ot the job tan be done with about 

 SIO 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 ! 

 ( lean out those fly breeding plates and 

 start using that spray \iun 



Work Progresses Rapidly on 

 Two District 4-H Club Camps 



■'ORK In progressing rapidly on two 

 of Illinois' district 1-H Club tamps 

 at ^X'est Iranktort and Jatksonville 

 in Jill effort to have them ready lor use 

 by luly i. 



The southern i-H tamp at VCcst I'rank- 

 tort expects to have a dining hall, a water 



W'Stv .-^ 



Working on fhe foundation of the kitchen for the Western f/finois 4-H club camp in 

 Morgan counfy are left to right: E. f. Lamont, farm adviser, Cass counfy; H. f. West, 

 youth assistant, Madison; Wayne Stapf, assistant farm adviser, Macoupin; Lyle D. Kerley, 

 assistant farm adviser, Sangamon; L, L. Fuchs, farm adviser. Pike; and flay Watson, farm 



adviser. Mason. 



system, sanitary tanhties, aiul roails ton- 

 structed by the first week in July. Ihe 

 southern camp comprises 6i acres on a 

 (iD-year lease from the city ot ^X'est 

 Iranktort and 2^ aires tlonated by the 

 tity Kiwanis Club. It has a mile and a 

 halt shoreline fronting a lake. 



NX'. C. Anderson, latkson tounty (arm 

 adviser, said S2(),()00 had been raised 

 tor the tamp. He estimated that about 

 SOO youngster-, would use it this summer 

 The southern tamp will serve -J'l tountie>, 



Ihe western ( H tamp south i>t (atk- 

 soiiville on Lake latksonville is in alx)ut 

 the same stage ol development as the 

 soulhern tamp. Ivvo weeks ago work 

 was protiressing rapidly on a kitihen and 

 dining lull and work was about to be 

 started on roads, water and sewage ilis- 

 posal systems. 



farm Adviser Ray \X'atson of NCasoii 

 (ounly estimated that more than 1,000 

 youngsters from 2S counties would attend 

 the tamp this year. The "S-aere woodcti 

 site with a mile-long lake shore line was 

 leased from the city of Jatksonville for 

 60 years. \X'atson said SS.OOO had beeu 

 raised tor the camp and that a campaign 

 for more money would be conducted this 

 summer. 



JUNE, 1949 



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