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Show H WAKE UP! WAKE UP! H Our community is infested with H ,( ' one of the worst plagues of flies H ' that has been seen in recent years. H This condition ought not to be re- H garded as only a menace, but with H alarm. It is a serious, threatening B danger to health and life, growing H worse daily. M Little or nothing is being done B to save the situation, and it ex- B ists solely because we, the citi- M zens of the community have pcr- M . tnitted filth to accumulate and have M furnished the most excellent M breeding grounds for this dreaded m pest. M Without any criticism on the H part of The Record, it appears that H,v, united effort on the part of the H people of Cedar has been lamcnt- H ably weak in cleaning premises. IThc really clean places in town could be counted on the fingers of one hand. Barnyard arc filled with . manure. Screens of out-of-doors toilets are open, uncovered from flies, which breed, prosper, wax fat in the land, invade our homes and deposit their filthy lucre thcrc- H , Should a few cases of typhoid H occur, an epidemic would, under H i present conditions result. l Citizens, let's wake up and clean f - up! I Get the manure out on the farms B ' "' where it belongs. Screen the out-B out-B i door toilets. Burn all refuse and B I rubbish and be clean! B 'A teaspoon ful of formaldehyde B placed in a small can of water each B morning will kill more flies than most anything else you can use, according to Dr. Bergstrom, our city physician, and president of the board of health. You can buy a small bottle of i ' formaldehyde at any drug store for ' 25 cents, which will be sufficient """ ' to last a month or more. Every one can afford this remedy, and it ' is very effective. f In a recent issue of The Record Kwe published an article in the farm - ; department, on this subject, which t is in part : a The minimum amount of borax T necessary to kill fly larvae is .62 ft t '' pounds per eight bushels of ma- m $' nure, or about one pound per six- f teen cubic feet. The best results are' p I- obtained when borax is applied in W- k solution or when water is sprin-m sprin-m ffc klecl on the pile and borax scat- tered thereon. When npjilictl in B jr this strength 90 per cent of the II larvnc are killed. ifim Borax has no injurious effects jjS" on the composition of manure as a , fertilizer when treated at the rate StX of one pound per sixteen cubic feet MK - and applied not more than 15 tons KB per acre. If larger applications of fkim manure so treated are applied to kI the soil considerable injury may be P caused, therefore great care should I, m be exercised in applying borax so fe k that not more than one pound will W be used to sixteen cubic feet of c manure and not more than fifteen ton of this be applied to the acre. |