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Show KiLL OiiE FLY HOW AND GET FIVE QUAD,i!LL10HS Did you ever stop to think bow-rapidly bow-rapidly the fly multiplies during the season? Starting on April 15 with, one female fly, the eggs of which number 120, a: d assuming that one half of. li e entire offspring is female and eacn produces its 120 eggs-but ence d-.irin the season, then we have, according to authority, an increase of flies from this single female fly of April 15 as follows: ' April 15 -ii 1 My isc 120 M.ty 2 jtn 7,2. 0 June 2ot 1 432,000 July 10th 25,y20,0OJ July2aih 1,555,200,000 Aug. loth 9:i,3i2,O'i0, 00 Sept. loth 5,558,720,000,000 Total 5, boo, tilo, 559,321 Truly the above figures stagger one. Of tourse we cannot expect that ever'-o::e ever'-o::e would reproduce as above indicated or that not a single fly be destroyed. But here are the results barring th-loss th-loss or injury to a single fly. Is it any wonder then th.it in the autumn the fiies are so numerous? Is it any wonder won-der then that we need to consider the necessity for better care in ih ; handling hand-ling of fool products to p: event the spread of disease through Lns med.u.n? Bakeis Helper. |