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Show mmm wm mi the house fly BEGIN AN ACTIVE CAMPAIGN BEFORE THE FLIES APPEAR THEN THEY WILL NOT BOTHER YOU AT ALL. By lu O. Howard. A careful screening of windows and doors very early in spring is a preventive pre-ventive mcasuro against house fllos known to everyone. Don't neglect this, for the flies are harder to get out of the house after they onco gain entrance en-trance than they arc to keep out. There seems to bo llttlo hope in tho near future of much relief by doing away with tho breeding places. A single stablo in which a horse Is kopt will supply houso flics for an oxtended neighborhood. People living in agricultural agri-cultural communities will probably nevor be rid of the pest but In cities, with bettor methods of disposal of garbage, and with tho lessening of tnc number of horsc3 and horse stables consequent upon electric street railways, rail-ways, bicycles and automobilos, the tlmo may come, and before vory long, Tho honse orntipedc, n natural enemy of tho "house ily. when window screens may be discarded. dis-carded. The prompt gathering of horso manure, whioh may bo variously treated or kept in a specially prepared receptacle would greatly abato the fly nuisance, and city ordinances compelling com-pelling horso owners to follow some 3uch course aro desirable Absolute cleanllnoss, even under existing ex-isting circumstances, will always re-suit re-suit in a diminution of the numbers of hoi'io flies, and, in fact, most household house-hold Insects arc less attracted to the premises of what is known as tho old-fashioned old-fashioned housekeeper than tr. those of the other kind. Make constant and vigorous w.r on thcso household pests. In farmhouses. farm-houses. In small communities and oven In tho badly carod-for portions of largo cities, typhoid perms are carried from excrement to food by flics, and tho proper supervision and treatment of tho breeding plco3 of tho houso fly become most important elements In the prevention of tvphoid. In tho samo way other intestinal germ diseases aro carried by flics. ! Tho Asiatic cholera, dysentery and in-fantlio in-fantlio diarrhea aro all so carried. There seerns to bo a definite period of ycrhaos ton deys between the isi.u- lng of the adult files and tho laying of eggs. During this period, and especially es-pecially In tho early spring, it becomes Important to trap and kill as many flies as possible. Uso "swatters," uso fly traps, use fly paper. Many fly traps are on tho market and many of thorn aro good. The house fly has a number of natural nat-ural enemies. The common house ccntlpcdo destroys it in considerable numbers; thero Is a small reddish mite which frequently covers Its body and gradually destroys it; It is subject to i tho attacks of parasites in Its larval condition, and It Is destroyod by predatory pred-atory beetles at tho samo time. But tho remarkable rapidity of development develop-ment of tho fly In tho early summer months more than replaces the fowj thus dojtroyod. , Tho stable or biting: fir. |