Show SLAY AND A D BURN BUR right now Is time to begin the warfare against deadly and filthy house fly presence of the pests Is evidence that housekeeper does not measure up to proper standards of cleanliness and efficiency ged rid of th the e merchants association of new york Is sending broadcast a bulletin designed to encourage the fight against tile the dangerous an and filthy house fly the propaganda is a commendable one and we are glad to give it space in these columns kill hill at once every ly fly you can find and burn his body observers that there are many reasons to believe there will be more flies this season than for a number of years the killing of lust just one fly NOW means there will be billions and trillions less next summer clean up your own premises see and insist that your neighbors do likewise especially clean out of the wa way y places and evirs every nook anti and cranny flies files will not go where there mere Is nothing to eat and their principal diet Is too filthy to mention the fly ly has no equal as a germ carrier as many as germs have been found in and on the body of a single fly it Is definitely known that the fly ts is the carrier of the germs germ s of typhoid fever it Is widely believed that it Is also the carrier of other diseases including possibly infantile paralysis ra lysis the very presence of a fly Is a signal and notification that a housekeeper Is uncleanly and inefficient do not wait until the insects begin to pester anticipate the annoyance april may and june are the lest months to conduct an anti fly campaign the farming and suburban districts provide ideal breeding places and the newborn flies do not remain at their birthplace but migrate using railroads and other means of transportation to towns and cities kill flies and save livest lives 1 any odor pleasing to man Is off offensive en to the fly and vice versa and will drive them away take live five cents worth of oil of lav euder ender mix it with willi the lie same quantity of water put it la in a common glass atomizer and spray it around the rooms where lies flies fire are in the lie dining room spray it lavishly even on tho the table linen the odor Is very disagreeable gree able to flies but refreshing tn ti most people geranium mignonette heliotrope and white clover anre offensive to aillem they especially dislike the odor of 0 honeysuckle and hop bop blossoms according to a french scientist file have intense hatred for the color blue rooms decorated in blue will help to keep out the flies mix alx together one tablespoonful of one of ground black pepper and one of brown sugar this mixture Is poisonous to the flies put in a saucer darken the room except ono one window and in that set the saucer to clear the house of flies burn born pyrethrum powder this stupefies fies tho the flies but they must be SWEPT UP and BURNED borax Is especially valuable around farms and out of doors one pound of borax to twelve bushels bus liels of manure will be found desirable as a poison without injuring its qualities or farm stock scatter the borax over 1 the manure and sprinkle with water nate L lac chloride of lime or copperas si of iron dissolved I 1 in water carbolic odd acid or any kind of disinfectant may be used in vaults |