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Show HEALTH 1 BY UNCLE SAM, M. D. Health Queations Will Oe An owercd if Sent to Information Gurcou, U S Public Health Serv ice, Washington. D. C, 1 I LI i s The house fly Musea domestical, which represents over ninety per cent of these found indoor:, deposit probably prob-ably one hundred and fifty eggs at :i ! time Only ten or twelve days olaps.-boiween olaps.-boiween the dropping of the eggs ana. 'the n ppear.inee of the full-grown :n-! eetS. The females of the new broou I I In turn bejrln t. lay their esrgs in u 1 few days after birth. The development of the fly is srm-l llaV to ilia; of the nio.-.iulto Flist tnel eggs are deposited: within twenty-1 four hours these are batched find tlio larvae appear, after u further period! I of five to six days thr latter pass to the pupal stage, and from till lo tao i j full-grown fly in three to six days. The larvae are well known ila niag- I gots," and are about one-fourth to an' 1 Inch long They are white crawling! ; horllev having the appearance of cat-1 . erplllars. They uro commonly found during the warm weather upon fti-l most any manure heap, dead animal i or other decomposing substanct Fli-. will breed wherever there any kind of filth. Carelessness re-g:irding re-g:irding manure heapH, garbage aim 'any other forms of decomposing ma -ler im 1 espi.nsllde fir th- coat in' noyance of flies In farmhouses ami count rj homes. Unfortunately, the public has not a very clear understanding .is to ir.L-mcans ir.L-mcans by which flies may be ollmm-, ated, or the object sought in carfy:nf out this Important sanitary' measure. Innumerable poisons, fly calchors, ana j "swatters" are on sale, d ised for ttiei puriiose of trapping or destroying i flics. Whllo these are very' popula-. thc- hnv.- mtle or no practlr.-il value, I for, as In the raae of the mosquito, tno extermination of files can he surces.-- fully accomplished only by the destruction de-struction of their breeding places. I 00 |