Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 124, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1914 — BEST WAY TO RID A HOUSE OF FLIES. [ARTICLE]

BEST WAY TO RID A HOUSE OF FLIES.

The London Lancet, the leading medical journal of the world, says that the best and simplest fly killer is a weak solution of formaldehyde In water (two teaspoonfuls to the pint). Place in plates or saucers throughout the house. Ten cents' worth of formaldehyde will last an ordinary family all summer. It has no offensive smell, is fatal to disease organisms, and Is practically non-polsonous except to insects. Pyrethrum powder, which may be bought at any drug store, burned in the house, will also kill flies.