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American Agriculturist, July 14,1923 
This Is Open Season For Flies 
Swat Them Early and Late — Midsummer Pattern Suggestions 
N othing is so discouraging, we ad¬ 
mit, as the everlasting task of 
keeping down the fly-supply. 
Yet nothing is so essential if health 
is a consideration. No agency in the 
world seems better equipped than the 
common—all too common—housefly for 
transmitting disease. 
The fly collects parasites on its body 
by visiting infected materials, and 
transports them to man and his food. 
The fly’s mouth is spongy, its feet are 
provided with sticky pads and its body 
is covered with hair. It is ideally built 
in the first place as a carrier of disease, 
and its habits further make it a direct 
menace to human life. 
The indifference which permits flies 
to _ breed and then is content with 
lazily shooing them from sugar bowl, 
butter or milk, only to have them return 
or light on other food, is inexcusable. 
Each farm, as a rule, raises its own 
supply of flies. Horse manure is the 
first choice for a breeding place, though 
any sort of decayed matter is popular 
with this filth-fed insect. Few breed 
in outside closets, but the adult flies 
visit such places to feed and from them 
go to kitchen or milk pail. 
The necessity of treating manure to 
destroy fly eggs and maggots seems 
obvious. Its neglect is inexcusable, 
when you consider that one pound of 
commercial powdered borax does the 
job for every sixteen bushels or twenty 
cubic feet of fresh stable manure. Add 
a little water to spread the borax. 
Plenty of lime should be used in out¬ 
houses, which should also be guarded 
to prevent the entrance of flies. 
In spite of precautions, flies will 
breed, and homes and food must be pro¬ 
tected. Economy in screens is inviting 
trouble. _ Sticky paper, flytraps, swat¬ 
ters, poison bait and recent spraying 
devices 'more expensive but most 
efficacious of all methods of killing 
flies) are all available. Milk, milk- 
pails and fruits at canning time should 
all have special care. 
Because of the places where the fly 
collects the filth on feet and body, 
and its fondness for walking over 
food immediately thereafter, the most 
common diseases brought by this pest 
are those of intestinal character. 
Typhoid has repeatedly been traced to 
flies and flies alone. Infants and chil¬ 
dren are especially subject to the hot- 
weather germ borne diseases, and to 
permit flies around a baby or a baby’s 
food is almost criminal carelessness. 
Swat the fly this summer. See that 
there are no inviting breeding places 
where the pest in immature stages 
may start next spring’s crop. When 
spring comes, go after the early comers 
with a vengeance, for the destruction 
of one fly then equals the slaughter 
of hundreds later. At midsummer they 
are at their height in number and 
hunger, so untiring vigilance is the 
only method of control. 
TO HIDE AN UGLY STUMP 
Perhaps there is some unsightly 
stump or rubbish pile in your immedi¬ 
ate surroundings that you’d like to 
cover up, yet you’ve hesitated to bother 
starting vines around it. 
This spring, prepare the soil around 
the “eye-sore” and plant a few hills of 
ordinary field pumpkins! 
When the vines start, train them to 
cover the object desired, and the re¬ 
sult will be a joy to the eye all sum¬ 
mer and until late autumn; first the 
green of the vines with their big leaves, 
then the handsome yellow blossoms, 
and, lastly, the yellowed leaves and 
the ripe pumpkins with promise of an 
“endless” round of pies. 
It is a small task, but one that will 
pay well for the doing. —Mabelle 
Robert. 
WHEN COOKING FRUITS 
If fruits are wanted rich and lus¬ 
cious, they should be given long, slow 
cooking. 
Add the sugar as desired, when you 
add the water. Let come to a boil 
slowly. _ Put on plenty of water, cover 
the fruit thoroughly, as much will evap¬ 
orate in the cooking; and let them cook 
down as thick as desired. 
i i 
_ Even “common” apple sauce is a fine 
dish if treated in this way. Prove it 
by dividing your apples, season pre¬ 
cisely alike, cook one dish up quickly 
and remove from the stove as soon as 
done; then cook the other one for sev¬ 
eral hours, and note the difference. 
Pears and peaches respond equally 
well to this long cooking, but it colors 
them dark. To keep fruits white, or 
clear, cook them very briskly and re¬ 
move from the fire as soon as done.— 
C. A. B. _ 
The Brown Mouse 
(Continued from page 27) 
queried Chicago papers on the story, 
and been given orders for a certain 
number of words on the case of the 
farm-hand schoolmaster on trial before 
JUST TO REMIND YOU 
TNELTJENCED by members of 
the school board, who are in¬ 
furiated by Jim Irwin’s calm way 
of going ahead in his plan for a 
class-room program related to life 
against their protests, Jennie 
Woodruff, the school superinten¬ 
dent tries to induce him to give 
up his “notions.” 
But Jim, former field-hand, is 
a “Brown Mouse”—a man of 
vision and ideas. Jennie’s father, 
the Colonel, has been watching 
him all along and intends to back 
the friendless teacher, when the 
show-down comes. 
his old sweetheart for certain weird 
things he had done in the home school 
in which they had once been classmates. 
By the time at which gathering 
darkness made it necessary for the 
bailiff to light the lamps, the parties 
had agreed on the facts. Jim admitted 
most of the allegations. He had prac¬ 
tically ignored the text-books. He had 
burned the district fuel and worn out 
the district furniture early and late, 
and on Saturdays. He had introduced 
domestic economy and manual training, 
to some extent, by sending the boys to 
the workshops and the girls to the 
kitchens and sewing-rooms of the farm¬ 
ers who allowed those privileges. He 
had induced the boys to test the cows 
of the district for butter-fat yield. 
He was studying the matter of a co¬ 
operative creamery. He hoped to have 
a blacksmith shop on the schoolhouse 
grounds sometime, where the boys 
could learn metal working by impairing 
the farm machinery, and shoeing the 
farm horses. He hoped to see a build¬ 
ing sometime, with an auditorium where 
the people would meet often for moving 
picture shows, lectures and the like. 
He hoped to open to the boys and girls 
the wonders of the universe which are 
touched by the work on the farm. He 
hoped to make good and contented 
farmers of them, able to get the most 
out of the soil, to sell what they pro¬ 
duced to the best advantage, and at the 
same time to keep up the fertility of 
the soil itself. And he hoped to teach 
the girls in such a way that they would 
be good and contented farmers’ wives. 
He even had in mind as a part of the 
schoolhouse the Woodruff District 
would one day build, an apartment in 
which the mothers of the neighborhood 
would leave their babies when they 
went to town, so that the girls could 
lefirn the care of infants. 
“An’ I say,” interposed Con Bonne*’, 
“that we can rest our case right here. 
If that ain’t the limit, I don’t know 
what is!” 
(.Continuednext week) 
FOUR WARM WEATHER “SPECIALS” FOR EASY SEWING 
F IRST, for the girl who 
needs lots of washable 
frocks, No. 1797 is easy 
to launder, and no more 
convincing proof of its 
simplicity to make, need be 
given than the cutting dia¬ 
gram in the corner. 
l-T^TTvS. 
No. 1797 cuts in sizes 
6, 8, 10, 12 and 14 years. 
Size 8 requires' 1% yards 
36-inch material with % 
yard 36-inch material con¬ 
trasting and % yard bind¬ 
ing. Price, 12c. stamps. 
A ND for- the woman who 
needs one more dressy 
blouse to wear with her new 
pleated ■ skirt, No. 1794 
solves the problem. It com¬ 
bines a deep circular collar 
and the popular jauquette 
effect. 
No. 1794 pomes in sizes 
16 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 
inches bust measure. Size 
36 requires 1% yards of 36- 
inch material with 7*4 
yards of binding. Price, 
12c. 
H ERE is the warm 
weather frock for either 
a young girl or her older 
sister. Y’ou could add the 
embroidery as a smart last 
touch, but the dress is com¬ 
plete without it. A mono¬ 
gram is seen on dozens of 
summer frocks and gives an 
odd, individual effect. 
No. 1689 cuts in 14 and 
16 year sizes and 36, 38, 40 
and 42 inches bust measure. 
The ladies’ size requires 
2% yards 32 or 44-inch ma¬ 
terial, with 2% yards of 
binding. Price, 12c. 
stamps. Transfer 632, 
12c additional. 
A ONE - PIECE porch or 
bungalow apron is our 
next hot weather suggestion. 
You will notice the laundry 
saving device in the detach¬ 
able bib section, which can 
be washed and ironed sep¬ 
arately. This also makes 
the apron appear almost a 
dress when the sash is tied. 
No. 1787 is cut in sizes 
34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches. 
Size 36 requires 3% yards 
of 36-inch material, with 
4% yards of edging or rick- 
rack braid. Price, 12c, 
stamps. 
To Order: Write name, address, pattern numbers and sizes clearly; 
enclose 12c for each pattern, and send your order to Fashion Department. 
The Summer catalogue, a guide book to the fashions, is only 10c extra, 
and we suggest that you order your copy to-day. 
