HOUSE FILES: HOW TO GET RID OF THEM
House Flies: How to Get Rid of Them HOUSE FLIES are carriers of disease. They have some natural enemies, such as the house centipede, but still we must all lend a hand if they are to be...
...2) a bin or pit shall be used to contain manure, which also shall be water-tight...
...Farmers, by observing the same precautions, may greatly lessen the annoyance and danger of this little disease-spreader...
...Cities and towns can successfully combat the fly...
...SOME OF OUR fake food manufacturers labor under the impression that Dr...
...They have some natural enemies, such as the house centipede, but still we must all lend a hand if they are to be exterminated...
...5) for each offense a fine of not more than $40...
...459) may be secured by writing to the Secretary of Agriculture at Washington, D. C. * * * The Tariff Board THE REPORT assiduously circulated by the standpatters that the President would veto any revision of the wool schedule on the ground that it was not based on information furnished by the tariff board is obviously absurd...
...Wiley is guilty of unreasonable purification of food.—Milwaukee Sentinel...
...The reports of the tariff board were not cited in defense of Canadian reciprocity.—Kansas City Star...
...3) the receptacle thus provided for manure shall be constructed so as to prevent the incoming or outgoing of flies;(4) manure shall be moved only in vehicles that will not permit any of it to be dropped...
...Washington, for example, has ordered that (1) all stables in which animals are kept shall have the surface of the ground covered with a water-tight floor...
...A copy of this bulletin (Farmers' Bulletin No...
...It would appear," says Mr...
...There are remedies and preventives against this little pest, and there should be organized effort in every community to make use of them...
...O. HOWARD...
...THE INSECT WE NOW CALL THE "HOUSEFLY" SHOULD IN THE FUTURE BE TERMED THE "TYPHOID FLY," IN ORDER TO CALL DIRECT ATTENTION TO THE DANGER OF ALLOWING IT TO CONTINUE TO BREED UNCHECKED.—L...
...All this, and more—including the life history of the fly, illustrated—is to be found in a recent bulletin of the United States Department of Agriculture, prepared by L. O. Howard, chief entomologist...
...Howard, "from what we know of the life history of the common house fly, and from what remedial experimentation has already been carried on, that it is perfectly feasible for cities and towns to reduce the numbers of these annoying and dangerous insects so greatly as to render them of comparatively slight account...
Vol. 3 • August 1911 • No. 32
