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Show 1 To Get Rid of Flies i . , They multiply by the billions ; and this is the worst country we I ever saw for these pests. The following is a cheap, easy and I the best known way to reduce I the enormous numbers and keep , them away from the house. Try it and keep a little of the bail sitting around all the time: Soak a piece of bread aboul I one and one-half inches square ; and one-quarter inch, thick in i r little milk; then place the bread in a saucer and add a teaspoon- full of ordinary formalin. Adc t sufficient water to raise the leve , of the liquid in the saucer unti , it almost reaches the upper sur-3 sur-3 face of the bread. Sprinkle ov er the bread and liquid a spoon-, spoon-, full of.sugar. This saucer should be placec j on a window sill in the evening j and the blinds drawn before al the windows except the one before be-fore which the saucer is placed, this shade should be drawn two-thirds two-thirds the way down. Early the following mornimg the house-flies house-flies will go to the window that is partially lighted and partake ' of the liquid in the saucer. With-j With-j in ten minutes after the fly has taken tne least sip of the liquid, he will be killed. This method - cannot be considered the least dangerous to children as the - taste is very repulsive to human ; beings. If taken into the mouth 1 of the child vomiting occurs, but ; no serious Illness. |