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Show FLY CONTEST IS ON. Chance to Win One Hundred Dollar Prize and Aid Health Department. One thousand dollars in prizes has been offered by Salt Lake City titer-fhanls titer-fhanls for the extermination of flies In I' tall. The contest will ' be conducted through the slate hoard of health and will end October 1st. The list of prizes is as follows: $100 to the person destroying the largest number of flies. Second and third prizes of $2n each and fourth prize of $20. The foregoing prizes are open to nil persons in the state, irrespective of piece of residence. In addition a number of county prizes ranging from ?I0 to $1 will he awarded. The list of county prizes in order according to number of. flies destroyed destroy-ed is as follows: : $1.rn ?2.00 $r.ni) ?in.O0 Prizes. Prizes. Prizes. Prizes Rait Lake . .17 5 1 Weber .... 9 5 3 1 Utah f r 3 1 Cache . . . . 9 5 H 1 Sanpete . . 9 5 3 1 R.ix Elder. .9 ! 3 1 Juab 9 f 3 1 Mavis .... 9 ! " 1 Soviet .... 9 5 3 1 Va--atch . . 9 4 3 1 Cm lion ... '1 3 1 1 flu m mil . . 6 3 1 1 T;-ocle ... 6 3 1 1 Pintail . ... 6 3 1 1 Emery . ... 6 3 1 1 vi'U-irrl ... 6 3 1 1 Washington, fi 3 1 1 reaver . .. fi 3 1 1 J. on 6 3 1 Garfield . . . fi 3 1 Morgan . . . fi 3 1 San Juan . . 6 3 1 Wavne . . . fi 3 1 Kidi 6 3 1 Piute fi 3 1 Kane 6 3 1 Grand .... 6 3 1 The conditions of the contest are as fol'ows: Plies will he counted by measurement, measure-ment, allowing 400 flies to the ounce. Flies caught on sticky fly paper will not he counted, but they may he caught in trans, swatted or poisoned, and may he killed by drowning, the use of Eulnhur fumes or by other means. Flies must he forwarded in boxes furnished by the state board of health. These boxes may he obtained Dii application to the hoard. It has been found by experience that, the "swatter" is one of the most rffective means of destroying flies. A Pimple fly poison which is harmless except to flies may be made by diluting dilut-ing formalin In sweetened water one part in ten. Communications regarding the cam- j paigu should be addressed to the sec- I retary of the state board of health, I Bait Lake City. 1 V |