Rensselaer Union, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1873 — A Word in Their Favor. [ARTICLE]

A Word in Their Favor.

Most all house keepers detest flies, and especially when they are as numerous as they have been during the summer just passed, in fact there is no species of insect which we regard with more active enmity than the fly. Yet, although flies are undoubtedly an annoyance, they serve a very useful purpose.—-. They are the scavengers that make away with the unnoticeable fragments of eatables, the decomposition of which would vitiate the air which we breathe. We see no reason to disbelieve the saying that cholera times are characterized by a scarcity of flies. We have, on the contrary, reason to believe, that an abundance of flies prevents that infection of the atmosphere, which is so fearfully calculated to introduce and spread cholera in its most malignant form. Let us, therefore, not be displeased with the flies, nor wish them all out of existence, because one happens to tickle us by lighting on.pur face.— Valparaiso Vidette.