160 THE STABLE-FLY. 
The best way to prevent losses among our domesticated 
animals is to give them the proper care they deserve, and to 
pay prompt attention to their health. All sores should be 
attended to as soon as discovered, and should be carefully 
cleaned. By permitting no filth, no matter of what char- 
acter, to accumulate, we prevent the increase of such suspi- 
cious and dangerous insects. Carcasses of all kinds should 
not be simply dragged into the woods, or some distance 
away from houses, to decay there, but should be promply 
buried, and deep enough that no maggot or the resulting 
flies bred in them can ever reach the light of day. Maggots 
of all flesh-flies are very tenacious of life, and even an immer- 
sion of several minutes in pure carbolic acid and strong tur- 
pentine does not kill them; even chloroform and ether do not 
kill them at once. Whenever persons or animals become in- 
fested with such dangerous maggots a physician should be 
consulted without delay. 
The use of fresh pyrethrum (insect-powder) is claimed to 
be a very good remedy. Ofcourse all maggots that can be 
reached with an instrument should be removed by mechani- 
cal means. 
THE STABLE-FLY. 
(Stomoays calcitrans Linn.). 
This fly,so frequently mistaken for the troublesome, rest- 
less, but otherwise innocent house-fly, is no stranger to our 
habitations; in fact it takes possession of our rooms with- 
out having been invited. If it behaved as a visitor is ex- 
pected to do matters would be all right, but this impudent 
fly is not satisfied, like the house-fly, with anything we may 
have upon our bill of fare, but it requires more pr: cious food, 
human blood, and is not slow to take it wheneve ° it pleases. 
We often hear the complaint made that house-flies would 
bite most viciously whenever rain was approaching, and 
during and after a shower. There is no doubt about such 
bites, but they were not inflicted by our domestic friend, the 
house fly, but by the above intruder, the stable-fly. As the 
name tells it is an insect most commonly found in and near 
stables; here, when at all numerous, they cause considerable 
