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SWAT THAT FLY! 
Biggest Murderer That Ever Lived 
Fles should be kept out of our 
houses, killed if they enter them, 
and prevented from hatching eggs 
in stables, manure-heaps, swill pails, 
and other filthy places. 
Because Flies are Filthy. 
They are born in filth; they feed 
on filth; they walk on filth; and 
then, with filth sticking to their feet, 
legs and bodies, they feed and walk 
on food which has been prepared for 
human beings to eat. It would dis- 
gust you, wouldn’t it, if you saw a 
fly feeding on the filth of the street, 
the stable, the garbage can, or on 
something worse, and then saw the 
same fly go through the open door 
or window of your dining room and 
wipe his feet on the sugar, tangle 
his legs in the butter or take a bath 
in the milk? If you should watch 
every fly that comes into the house, 
you would see that most of them had 
come from such filth to the food on 
your table. 
Because Flies Are Dangerous. 
Bad as filth is, it is not the worst 
thing that flies carry about. They 
swarm about open sewers, drains 
and outhouses which receive millions 
of disease germs which have passed 
through the bodies of sick people. 
Flies in this way pick up and carry 
on their bodies, heads and legs 
(which are covered with fine hairs— 
just suited for catching and holding 
this sort of thing) the germs of ty- 
phoid fever, cholera infantum (or 
the summer diarrhoea of children), 
tuberculosis and several other dis- 
eases. Dr. L. O. Howard, Chief 
Entomologist of the United States 
Department of Agriculture, calls the 
common house-fly the Typhoid Fly, 
because so many cases of typhoid 
fever have been caused by his carry- 
ing the germs from one sick person 
to another. These germs are so 
small that you. cannot see them with- 
out a microscope, but the fly that is 
eating from the same plate with you 
may be carrying a million of them. 
Flies kill more people than wild 
beasts and poisonous snakes. Many 
of these beasts and snakes never get 
a chance to kill any human being; 
but any one of the millions of flies 
found in most of our towns and 
cities has a chance, if he comes into 
a house carrying typhoid germs, of 
killing a whole family. 
You have been told why you 
should kill flies and prevent their 
breeding ; this is 
How to do it 
Most house-flies in cities are 
hatched from eggs which have been 
laid in horse manure. Some breed 
in other forms of filth, such as gar- 
bage cans, heaps of refuse in back 
yards, etc. The fly lays 120 or more 
eggs at a time. These, if they are 
not disturbed, become maggots in 
about twelve hours. In from five to 
eight days more, the maggots enter 
the pupa state, as caterpillars do, 
and after from five to seven days 
come out of the earth or manure in 
which they have buried themselves 
in the form of flies, ready in a few 
days to become the fathers and 
mothers of large families. They 
breed so rapidly that in one summer 
the children and grandchildren of 
one pair of flies may amount to 
thousands of millions. And remem- 
ber that the germs they carry multi- 
ply much faster than the flies. 
To Prevent Flies From Breeding: 
Screen stables if possible. 
Remove the manure at least twice 
a week. 
Keep the manure, while it is in 
the stable, in a closed bin or pit. 
Every time the stalls are cleaned, 
and the manure placed in the pit or 
bin, sprinkle it with dry plaster 
(powdered gypsum) or slaked lime. 
Be sure that you sprinkle the 
cracks and crevices of the bin or 
pit, as well as the cracks between 
the planking of the stable floors. 
If flies begin to breed in stored 
manure they may be killed by thor- 
oughly spraying it with kerosene or 
Paris green, and then pouring on 
enough water to wash the oil or 
poison well in. 
The objection to the use of kero- 
sene is that it ruins the manure for 
fertilizing purposes. A solution of 
iron sulphate (one pound to a gal- 
lon) applied at the rate of one gal- 
lon a day in a stable where one horse 
is kept, will kill all the maggots. It 
costs about $1 per hundred pounds; 
so that the cost of keeping flies from 
breeding in a_ one-horse stable is 
about one cent a day. 
It is well to abolish old-fashioned 
outhouses where possible. Where 
this cannot be done a liberal amount 
of lime should be used, applied in 
small amounts daily. Chloride of 
lime is better than slaked lime, but | 
slaked lime is better than none at all. 
Garbage cans should be thor- 
oughly cleaned after emptying, and 
the contents should be sprinkled 
with crude oil, lime or kerosene oil. 
Keep garbage cans closely coy- 
ered, unless you have a fly-trap at- 
tached to them. Such traps may be 
obtained at most hardware stores. 
Sereen the doors and windows of 
your home, especially those of the 
kitchen, dining-room and pantry. If 
you cannot do this at least screen the 
food itself, especially the milk, in 
which germs multiply with more 
than ordinary rapidity. 
Sereen sick-rooms, or at least the 
bed of the patient, and do not allow 
flies to have access to his exereta, 
which should be treated with chlor- 
ide of lime or some other disinfect- 
ant. 
Sereens are especially needed in 
towns which have no sewer system, 
or in which the sewers drain into a 
stream, on the banks of which flies 
swarm, attracted by the filth from 
the sewers. 
Sticky fly-paper and a variety of 
traps may be used, as well as pois- 
oned fly-paper. 
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