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Show OILING ROADS K1U.S FLIES. Massachusetts Man Says Torvle Destroys De-stroys the Eggs and Larvae. A Lenox (Mass.) cutoinologlst nsserts that the absence of flies along oiled . highways Is duo to the destruction of tho eggs nnd larvao by the application of tnrvla and tho byproducts of oils which are being used to preveut dust. After conducting a scrlpjj of experiments experi-ments tho Lenox man bus found that there Is almost n total absence of the stable or biting fly. Tho Lenox experimenter savs that tarvla has practically killed the breeding breed-ing places of tho stable fly and thnt there nro fewer houseflles. Since 'it has been established that typhoid germs nre carried by flics, also Asiatic cholera, nnd that there Is strong evidence that the fly Is also tho carrier of -tuberculosis and other diseases, dis-eases, tlio discovery , that oiling highways high-ways lessens tho common fly and almost al-most entirely exterminates the stablo fly. appears to bo .of tin- highest im-nortnuce. |