| Show borax will prevent typhoid fly Bree breeding dino As it a i fault insult of experiments I 1 the specialists of the dopart of agriculture have dis lovered oll ered that a small amount 01 01 dinar y bolac bolax sprinkled sprinkle daily on ma manigle nitle will ill effect I 1 hely piment the ohp bleeding of the typhoid oi 01 house honse div similarly ilaray the samp same substance applied to gailaro gai baRo bage refuse open toilets damp fleets and crevices lit in stables bellais or mai 1 ats will prevent fly eggs egge aiom hatching borax will III not kill the adult fly nor present it flon laying eggs but its thorough thoi ough use will prevent any fi bleeding tile the investigation which included expel indents with many danyl substances mb stances was undertaken to discover Ha cover some means beam of pro pre j renting benting the lite bleeding eding of fliess in hoise boise mancie without lessening the value of this manure as a fertilizer for use by the far farmei niell it was felt that if homo means of preventing the brooding breeding of tiles flies near a human habitation could be devised the diseases spree espred by these thes I 1 filthy germ gerin carriers could be greatly reduced while the swat the fly campaign traps and other devices for reducing the number of typhoid carrying flies are of value they are of less importance than the prevention of the breeding it was realized I 1 however that no measure leagur for preventing the breeding kofl of lies flies would come into common commo n use unless it was such auch that the farmei could use it on his manure pile without destroying its usefulness for glowing plant sand without introducing into the soil any substance that bould intel feie with his i aps ops As a result of carried on at tile the allington faun in virginia and new orleans oi leans la the investigate s found that 0 62 of a pound of boian oi 01 0 75 of a pound of crude calcium borate would kill tafel th ea maggots and prevent cally all of the flies files ordinarily bleeding in eight bu of hoise manure aiom develop ing this thic was aimed ba b placing manure in cages and om paring the insult from piles pile treated with borax and fiam untreated plies piles the boiar it was found killed the aly eggs and maggots in the manure and prevented then growth into files |
