Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 82, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1917 — Winter Is the Time to Kill Next Summer’s Flies [ARTICLE]

Winter Is the Time to Kill Next Summer’s Flies

Don’t let your home become a winter/ haven for flies, says the North Carolina state board of health. Even the clean home when the weather turns ebltl becomes attractive to flies, and only* the greatest vigilance. will keep them out. But when flies do get into the home at the coming of cold weather don’t let them go to the ceiling and stay there. And don’t think that the first freeze will kill them out Flies are not dead when they lie around stiff with cold. The next warm spell or next spring will show- you they were “possuming.” In case of a freeze, however, every fly in thq hquse should be swept down and burned. They should be sought out and brought from under cover in every room in the house, from the cellar to the garret. Scientists tell pu ß that the that were hatched late and that have not completed their life cycle are they which live in an even temperature through the winter and become the progenitors of our countless millions next summer. Consequently now is the time to fight next summer's flies. This is the time when "swatting” flies will be really effective. But if there are too many to “swat" trap or poison them. Use fly paper and every other means In order that not one may be carried oyer from one season to the -next - ’ ■ ’ wxn