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Show FLY FILTHIEST INSECT SOME PRECAUTIONS YOU SHOULD TAKE TO BE RID OF PEST. Get Habit of Keeping Premises Clean and You Will Not Have Much Trouble Fighting Them. LIES do not waste their time loafing around clean premises. Thoy demand filth (or su s t enance. So whorovcr you see flies you can a v bo suro there's C filth closo by. f 0' During the J courso of a state- Jy( w 1 d o campaign PiSjItVv. last year, the &ZA. ,?V Connecticut ox- VSpUvT- periment station r "5isf4 conducted an In- - v o s t i g atlon to learn how many bacteria the average fly carried away from tho Blop barrel, bar-rel, the hog pen, tho cow stablo and tho house. Tho Investigation was '.borough and nothing was left to guess work. This Is tho report: Each slop-barrel fly carried an averago of moro than lt 8,000,000 germs; tho hog-pen fly car ried a ltttlo less than ono million; tho cow-stablo lly carried only about 420.-000; 420.-000; tho houHofly carried about twico ' . that number, or 850,000. V If you must have a slop barrel on the premises, keep It carefully screened, ,' Dlso It may spread disease If you havo a garbngo can at tho kitchen , Joor, keop tho can covered. Burn all r garbago If you can do so practically. Otherwlso drain It and wrap It in paper pa-per boforo putting It in tho can. Somo day wo shall come to look on rA tho fly In tho snmo light wo now look r. on bedbugs and body lice. Tho fly Is filthier than these other vermin. He t la born In filth, lives In It, feeds on It, carries It and spreads It on our food. Don't take any chances. Screen v, ' your houso carefully. Destroy all ox- i crctory anil kitchen wasto matter. x Keop your premises clean. Teach your children tho dangers of (lies and mako crusaders of them. If your neighbor is a "pull-back" and dirty, report him. |