Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1914 — Page 3

FLIES—DANGEROUS TO HAVE IN THE HOUSE

It Has Become Known in Recent Years That Flies Are Transmitters of Diseases, and Therefore, Are Dangerous to Mankind—Such Diseases as Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Cholera Infantum, and Many Others Are Spread By Flies. o' * - ■ ... . ... ‘ ‘ r *

7. ' . - NE of tfae most common, and I I widely distributed of house|sqa—J hold pests is the common fly. This insect, which has been . r- gdven but little consideration until recently .now attracts wide ats tention on account of the fact that it is a cpnveyor of all sorts of diseases. Besides carrying germs of typhoid fever, dysentery, cholera, and numerous other dreaded diseases, it is pos- ’ sible that it may also carry sjnallpox, leprosy, plague, erysipelas, and other germs. The best fly preventive Is to prevent

Biting House Fly.

By breeding. The second best is to keep things bo clean as to prevent fly feeding. The third best thing is to defend oneself against the flies that have come. Sometimes it will be possible to screen them away. This works well enough with dwellings.. The few flies that get into a well screened house can be swatted, or caught "with paper, or killed with'poison. Where the doors are opening constantly, screens are sometimes of little service and sometimes none at all. Under these circumstances, what Is to be done? Usually it will be possible to protect the food supply with cases, screens, or mosquito bar.. Anything kept in the Icebox will be protected. Flies suddenly entering an atmosphere of 60 will escape if they can. If not, they slow up. At about 48 they lose their ability to fly. At 27, five degrees below freezing, most of them die. The best method of ridding a dairy barn, milk house, or store of flies will depend on the number present and on other considerations. When flies are abundant the use of fly traps is the most effective* method. Sticky fly paper has some advantages and some disadvantages. A'few saucers containing a mixture of one pint Of water, one tablespoonful of formaldehyde (commonly known as . formalin), and one tablespoonful of sugar will be efficacious, if not much water is exposed in the room. The proposers recommend that pieces of bread saturated with this so- | lution be' placed in plates and these exposed in places inaccessibly to children and domestic animals. When the' place is not being used it should be darkened, whereupon fly (taper, fly traps, or fly poison, placed near an. undarkened window, will be ' doubly effective. The Connecticut experiment station has made some tests to determine how thickly populated with germs are flies from different places. To begin with, opr old enemy, the blue bottle fly, is not much of an enemy after all. In addition to being so shy as to be harmless, he is not thickly populated. -He only carries 300,000 germ passengers. Swill barrel flies average about

Cluster Fly.

9,000,000, pig pen flies about 1,000,000, . and dwelling bouse flies nearly 900,•00. • Swill barrel flies, pig pen flies, and dwelling house flies are the same species of insect The only difference is in the degree of dirtiness. Lt is the difference between a man before and after his bath. The fly is a most voracious eater. We have heard that he is a mobt appalling breeder, but his gastronomic ability has not had-much notice. A satiated housefly, preening himself on

GREEK METHODS HIDDEN

Rediscovery of Key to Physical Supremacy Would Be inestimable Boon to World. No greater gift could be made to our modern world than the rediscovery bf the Greek physical supremacy. The secret 6f the method by which, for one brief peril d,_ they realised perfection was long since lost, no one knows how. r • At present, no Uttle do we under4-‘ / ,Z. ■-

a piece of pie, weighs nearly twice as much as when he began to eat. When fed plenty of moist food he deposits a fly speck every five minutes. He will eat anything as well as everything. Because sputum is from a case'of cohsumption or excretiohs are fixMr a case 61 typhoid la no reason.. why they do not appeal to the fly’s palate. Being fond of filth, as well as of clean food; , beingfond of dirty places, naturally they have many germ diseases of their own. ■' * There are epidemics affecting flies as well as epidemics affected by flies. But what matters It if .a few millions, are killed by germs when so many millions can quickly breed? Nothing with the feeding and breeding power -of a fly is at any great disadvantage from germs. It is the human being that expects to produce but a few of its kind that must fight off the ene mies to keep the race alive. Flies* are of no consequence except as they affect the food. They do not start any disease. They serve to carry them from one place to another. One farmer may get typlibid in his milk and then spread typhoid to a hundred farmers’ milk by emptying it into a common vat. From this common vat 500 consumers may jabtain their milk. Thus typho’id may be spread all over a town. But about the only chance for solid food like bread, meat, and sugar to spread typhoid is through the help of flies. A man’s water faucet taps the same pipe as that of another man, a man’s milk bottle is filled from the same can as another’s—but the only link between two men’s bread is our enemy, the fly. If the one has ; a communicable disease, the fly, forgetting all about quarantine, travels with his

What Flies Do, a True Picture, But Not a Pretty One.

saddle bags loaded with germs from him who hath to him Who hath not. "Swat ■ the fly early and late,” Is what the health officials of the city of Chicago are endeavoring to have the residents of that city do in an effort to prevent the spreading of disease by the little pests. , Some of the truths which the health officials are endeavoring to bring home are set forth in the following paragraphs: “Bread makes a fine foot wipe for files.” ' “It’s a short haul from the garbage can to the dining room via the fly ropte.” ’ “Flies Peddle, So Paddle.” “Flies will peddle, peddle, peddle— Unless you paddle, paddle, paddle. Get busy. Keep busy.” ♦ “If*at first you don’t succeed, swat, swat again.” In fighting files, it Is most important to concentrate attention on fly breeding places. Next in importance comes fly feeding places. Flies require such an enormous volume of food that we can accomplish' something by keeping things free from fly food. Most important is care of the garbage—no garbage on the ground, a clean can well covered and frequent removal. But efforts toward diminishing fly food should not stop at garbage. Exposure of foods to the flies in stores must be stopped. Confectionery, fruits, vegetables, meats, and general bulk

stand the principles of training, which glided the Greek in his games, in his battles and bis dances, and made the proportions of his figure different from ours of today, that Greek sculpture is in reality a puzzle to us. Certain postures fixed-by the Greek sculptor seem to us contortions, bordering on physical impossibilities. There is always a terrific controversy over the restoration of Greek sculpture, and even then the arms and heads and legs We supply never loot right" All this because we de not under

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groceries must hot be exposed. In some states, laws covering this point are. enforced. In others they are a dead letter. What’s the use of fly posters and widely heralded fly cam paigns If the law relating to fly food is not enforced? - It is advised that housewives sprinkle a solution of one part of formaldehyde to ten parts of water in their garbage containers during the warm months, to kill not only odors, but flies and vermin. When Rosenau discovered that stable flies could carry infantile paralysis, the interest in this fly increased materially. The farmers already knew

Blue-Bottle Fly.

of . the harm from this fly. In addition to spreading infantile paralysis, Jennings and King of the bureau of entomology say it may spread pellagra. ' The diseases of domestic animals spread by it are anthrax, swamp fever, glanders, septicemia, surra, souma, and, maybe, round worm. In addition, -biting flies worry, stock so much that they cannot-work efficiently. Animals get thin and milk cows sometimes go off 40 to 60 per cent in the amount of milk produced. F. C. Blshopp of the United States bureau of entomology, tells us that the stable fly breeds largely in straw. Old strawstacks in the fields are the worst offenders. Bishopp’s advice is to burn these Stacks or else to spread the straw, and plow it in deep. When a heavy rain falls on freshly threshed straw conditions for fly breeding are at their worst. Manure containing straw is another breeding place of importance.' To keep the flies off, Blshopp advises a mixture Of fish oil (one gallon), oil of pine tar (two ounces), oil of pennyroyal (two ounces), and kerosene (one-half a pint). The fish-oil mixture, If faithfully applied, will serve as a repellent against flies as long as It retains its effectiveness.

Indian Ingenuity.

In his preface to “Antarctic Days,” Sir Ernest Shackleton' tells an amusing little story of northern Canada. A government geologist, with infinite labor, had collected some very interesting geological specimens in a region far beyond civilisation. Most of the collecting was done on the barren ground 280 miles northeast of the Great Bear lake. Thb scientific man and the porters of the party carried the rocks on their backs to the Great Bear lake, paddled 300 miles across the lake, and alternately paddled and portaged 1,500 miles up the Mackenzie, Slave and Athabasca river*. The last portage was half a mile long at the Grand Rapids of the Athabasca, and it was done by Indian employes of the Hudson’s Bay company. The Indians were ingenious men, and they still tell with pride how they saved much labor by emptying all the heavy bags and boxes at the lower end

A Greenhead Fly.

of ths rapids, and filling them again at the upper end with rocks of similar weight. By this means theysaved half « mile of difficult carrying. The Substitution was found out a year later to Ottawa.

China’s Telegraph Lines.

The Chinese government, which owns the country’* telegraph system, ha* extended i| until more than 36,000 mile* of land lines and about 1,000 miles of cabfee are now in us*.

sUnd the principles by-which the Greek ordered the movements of his body. It was a great secret of bodily coordination, and the secret ha* been lost, and with it the ability thoroughly to understand the Greek art.

Force of Habit

Willis (in the cemetery)—This can’t be Hardup’s grave. The inscription reads, “Mrs. Hardupp.” Gillis—Yes, but you see he had his tombstone, like his other things, pul in his wife’s name—Puck.

WESTERN CANADA’S NATURAL RESOURCES

PETROLEUM, NATURAL GAS, COAL ANO FARM LANDS. The developments that have taken place recently in the oil and gas fields of Western Canada have but added another to the many previous evidences that have been produced, showing the great wealth that has been an unknown asset for so many generations. The latest reports from the oilfields at Calgary show that there is a production there that would appear to equal the best paying fields on the Continent. Experts have been on the ground for some time. It Is said that one of the wells is able to produce 2,000 gallons an hour. If this Is so there are but about a dozen wells In the world of greater production. During the past week discoveries of surface Indications have been made which show that oil exists over a considerable portion of Alberta and Saskatchewan, while in Manitoba there have also been showings. At Battleford, Saskatchewan, a few days ago discoveries were made which led to the filing for leases .on twenty thousand acres of land, all having strong surface indications. Companies were formed to carry on immediate work, and in a couple of months, or probably less, the story will be told whether oil exists in paying quantities. But there are also the coal deposits and the natural gas deposits that are helping, to make of Western Canada one of the wealthiest portions of the continent With the grain fields covering these hidden riches it is no wonder that a continued range of optimism Is to bo seen everywhere. Early reports of seeding of all grains being successfully completed all over the country are followed by reports of excellent and strong growth everywhere. During the first week In June most of the wheat had reached a growth of from twelve to twenty inches, with the most even appearance, almost universally, that has been seen for years. Oats appeared equally well, and covered the ground In a way that brought the broadest kind of a grin to overspread the farmer’s countenance.

Barley, a favorite with the hog raisers, had taken good root, and was crowding oats for a first place, as to length of shoot Cultivated fodder grasses are getting great attention, as a consequence of the inclination to go more largely Into mixed farming, and the* raising of hogs, cattle and horses. The weather is reported fine, just what is needed, and if present favorable eonditions continue, the grata, crop of Western Canada, for 1914 will be the largest average in the history of the country.

Overcoming a Technicality.

."How the deuce can Bjinks be a lawyer when he can neither read nor writer *x>h, he» practises the unwritten

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Years of Experience Makes Perfect CASTORIA Mothers may try new remedies on themselves but Baby’s life is too delicate, too precious to try any experiments. Genuine f|] ■] Llj Always Bears the Signature of " ■ BECAUSE it has been made under his personal supervision for more than 30 years to the satisfaction of millions upon millions : of Mothers. Sold only in one size bottle, never in bulk, or otherwise; to protect the babies. The Centaur Company, * **»*•*.

REAL LIFE IN THE COUNTRY

Fact Is Shown by Man’s Eagerness to Escape From Congestion of the Crowded City. Why is it that railway magnates, - presidents of banks and heads of great enterprises who must perforce do business in cities, almost all try to have, homes on farms in the country, where they develop soils, plant crops and breed animals? It is because there is wearisome monotony in piled up brick and stone. There is confusion in crowded streets and! clanging trolipy cars and hot smoky railways. These things man has made, and they are needful, but they are not life, much as the farm boy may Imagine them to be. ■ • • T/.; . Life lain the open country. Life is in the grow|ihg grass, the waving fields of wheat, the springing corn. Life is in the trees and birds, life is in the developing animals of the farm. Any man who works with the land, who feeds a field and watches the result, gains a real fundamental knowledge of the underlying foundation on which rests all our civilization. It makes him a sober man, a thoughtful man, a reverent man, and if he eXperlments wisely a hopeful optimist Life, ip where things are born and Mve and grow. On the farm It real life.—Breeder’s Gazette.

PARADISE FOR THE BIRDS

Providence Seems to Have Provided Temperate Zone for the Feathered Friends of Man. ' Up in the far country where the timber falls, the calendar is respected. There is no summer before the official day set for it. The ground is held fast by frost until June is wellstarted. There are flurries of snow, wild, bitter winds, a sky that has no mercy. And then, suddenly, the wind shifts and comes out of the south. It Is .summer then with a leap. The-interest of the temperate zone in the northland is that it is there that have gone a great many of the migrating ..birds which paid us a few days’ visit and passed on. For all its inhospitality to man, this country in summer is a paradise for birds. Its marshes are safe refuges from two and four-footed enemies. There is, eXhaustless material for nests. And out of the pools come myriads of insects, food that does not fail until the time for the southward bird movement arrives. ' Some man has said that there is no God north of latitude 59. He did not inquire as to what the birds might have thought of that. —Toledo Blade.

New Modern Dancing

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The Noblest Arms.

We may talk what we please of lilies, and Hons rampant, and spread eagles, in fields d’or or d’argent; but, if heraldry were guided by reason, a plow in a field of arable would be the most noble and ancient arms.— Abraham Cowley.

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