RESULTS 

 House Flies 

 Manure Management 



Ti 1 1 ing wet manure. At the tilling site, fairly dry manure, 10 to 

 15 cm deep, had become wet from seasonal blowing rains and threatened 

 to overflow onto the walkways. An attempt was made to dry the manure 

 by tilling every house twice a day, 7 days a week. Houses 1 through k 

 were tilled and then the process was repeated after a 30-min interval. 

 Tilling was done during the noon hour when the temperature was nigh and 

 workers were not in the houses. 



Resu 1 ts . When tilling began, the manure pack was not uniformly 

 wet, but too wet in most places for house flies to breed. The presence 

 of house fly adults was hardly noticed and soldier flies, ,if present, 

 were not evident. Manure was a shapeless mass with the consistency of 

 a thick paste. Problems were compounded in some areas by leaking 

 Hart cups. 



Tilling tended to dry and texturize as well as push manure away 

 from the walks and leave it in mounds towards the center of the manure 

 collection areas (Figure 10). After 1 week of tilling, the manure pack 

 began to hold its shape, but flowed back to the edges of the walkways 

 after 24 hr. Although the moisture level had dropped by a noticeable 

 amount, the manure had the consistency of mashed potatoes and was not 

 yet breaking into individual pieces when tilled. 



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