FARM DAIRYING 



Another fly remedy is: — lo parts of lard, or 

 other grease, to one part of pine tar. Mix well 

 and apply with a brush or cloth once or twice a 

 week to the parts most attacked. This is splendid 

 as a relief from the horn fly. 



If the flies make the cows restless during milk- 

 ing, so that they will not stand, a cotton blanket 

 thrown over them at that time is a great help. 



It is a good plan to darken the stable during the 

 day, and to have the windows screened. 



To prevent the flies that are on the cows from 

 going into the stable with them, arrange some 

 evergreen boughs, brush, brooms, or sacking at 

 the entrance. As the cows pass through this, many 

 flies are brushed oS and remain outside. 



THE HOUSE FLY 



The house fly has always been a troublesome 

 nuisance, but now it is looked upon as a very potent 

 agent in spreading such dangerous diseases as 

 typhoid fever, cholera infantum, summer com- 

 plaint, etc. 



Flies are such indiscriminating scavengers; in 

 their migrations they visit everything both hidden 

 and revealed. When we consider this, the thought 

 of them walking over our food or taking a sail in 

 the milk pitcher is far from pleasant, and when 



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