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Show HOW TO SWAT MR. FLY The following is from the Chicago Tribune in regard to the warfare that is now being carried on against the common com-mon house fly and should be read by every housekeeper: To begin with, screen all food, especially milk and pour kerosene over all garbage. Keep a little kerosene in each garbage pail when empty. If you have a stable don't let the manure stand. Chloride of lime, on manure will keep the flies away. Th:s is expensive, but you can remove the manure every dav. Place in each room of the house saucers containing formaldehyde. formal-dehyde. Two teaspoonsful of formaldehyde formal-dehyde in a pint of sweetened water will form a supply for several rooms. Keep small children away from this, as it is poison. There are liquid fly poisons pois-ons which are good and the sticky fly paper helps. But do not let dead flies remain in the room. Dead or alive get them out. Another effective agent i ; pyrethrum powder. When there are flies in the room, shut the doors and windows and pull down the shades, leaving one so that the light comes through a small slit at the bottom. Bring in some live coals or other burning substance in a shovel and sprinkle pyrethrum powder upon the coals. The fumes will kill every fl;- in the room. In trying to escape they make lor the slit of light. There they may be quickly swept up and thrown outside of the house. Go over your premises every day and prevent pre-vent the accumulation of garbage, filth, dirt. Sweep out behind radiators. Report Re-port to the board of healtn anyone who neglects to remove the garbage of unsanitary un-sanitary accumulations. Keep your garbage in closely covered tans. Don't be afraid to use kerosene in them all the time. Don't let milk stand in unscreened receptacles. Keep it on ice all the time, or at least covered cover-ed up in a cool place. Burn all refuse. |