Show S SWAT W A T Now's ow's the Time to Begin Begin Be Be- gin gin Your our Summer War onit on n Dirty it an and Dea Deadly ly Housefly The best means menns of getting rid of flies is is' never to let them get a foothold according to V W. W W. W Swett of the Missouri Missouri Missouri Mis Mis- agricultural experiment station Although his recommendations are made mainly from the standpoint of protecting cows against flies mes they are Just as applicable to the protection of people The best means menns of of fly control is to prevent their breeding It requires ten days for the fly ly to develop from egg to adult t so If all barnyard manure and oth other r filth in which It cn can develop Is cleaned up every five or eight days the flies flies' supply will be cut off If it itIs itIs itis Is impossible to remove the filth farenough far farenough farenough enough so that the flies fUes which breed In it cannot reach the house or barns It may be treated with powdered borax sprinkled over the manure pile or other filth at nt the rate of about an ounce for each ench cubic foot to be treated After it has hns he been en sprinkled on it should be washed through the pile with water Half n a pound of or hellebore which has been allowed to stand in ten gallons of water from ten to twenty four hours may be sprinkled at the rate of a gallon gallon gallon gal gal- lon to the cubic foot on the filth to tobe tobe tobe be tre treated ted In either barns or houses fly flytraps traps help a little and a a. great grent deal of relief may be obtained by mixing half a pint of milk half a pint of water and two tablespoonfuls of 40 per cent formaldehyde Stronger mixtures mixtures mixtures mix mix- tures have so much in them that that- the flies fUes do not noc drink it A slice of bread may be placed in the plate in which the mixture is exposed Cows may be protected by means of commercial or ors homemade Pyrethrum powder is good and the commercial are generally preferable if th they y do not cost too much Homemade mixtures es of either one part of crude carbolic acid or pine tar with nine parts of cottonseed oil give very good if appU applied d lightly |