Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1917 — Exterminate Stable flies and Save Your Live Stock F.C. Bishop 1 [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Exterminate Stable flies and Save Your Live Stock F.C. Bishop 1

This pest causes hundreds of thousands of dollars damage in the United -States every sum'iher and is a serious menace to health

cause flies are most numerous during those seasons. 12. Why is typhoid fever common in one community and not in another? Largely because the common housefly is abundant in one locality and is controlled in the other. 13. Where are flies most abundant? Where there is most filth. 14. How shall we kill the fly? (a) Destroy all tilth about the house jind yard: (b) Put lime into the vault and over the manure; (c) Trap all flies before they enter your home by using wire flytraps: (d) Kill till flies, large or small, with a ‘‘swatter;’’’ (e) Use sticky flypaper or fly poisons around iheJkouse or store; (f) Pour a borax solution over manure, filth or other places where the fly may rehr its young. The Fly a Peril in Cities. In the fight against the deadly housefly the public shonjd understand the odds against which it contends to rid cities of this pest and the vigilance TU?c?ssary to obtain even a modteum of safety where the insects exist. Each female lays 120 eggs, which hatch in eight days. Ten days later the new -generation is in flight, carry=_ Ing on the work of death. It is estimated that the progeny of a single pair in one season is one sexfllHon. or, in figures. 1.000,000,000.000.000.000.000. Manure garbage, and other filth are the breeding spots of flies. Jhe department of agriculture, in its experiments has found larvae and puparia enough in a pound of horse manure to ma ke 1.200 houseflies. A sin-gleill-kept st:ihie will, supply houseflies for a large' territory. There is hope of greatly lessening the pests in cities if the authorities will enforce good ordinances on the subject of removing manure and garbage promptly. The increase in automobiles and auto trucks has already aided in exterminating flies. Horse owners can help the crusade by mixing chloride of lime with the manure in the ratio of a quarter of a pound of the former to eight quarts of the lat-

Head of the Stable Fly.