WAR AGAINST PESTS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3156, 28 February 1911, Page 4

WAR AGAINST PESTS.

FLIES AND MOSQUITOES.

Tbe New South Wales Department of Agriculture lias issued a leaflet which should be distributed amongst all housekeepers, for it is the housekeeper who must wage war against flies and mosquitoes. ‘There should be no flies in a clean town,” Says the Government Entomologist, and the leaflet- tells in a few words that “flies breed in filth, crawl over and feed upon it. and then fly into the house and leave disease germs upon all exposed food. Typhoid, consumption, and (tlier diseases can be and often are ‘contracted and spread through the presence of flies. “House-flies are the direct cause of many deaths in Australian town every year.. ‘House-flies lay their eggs.chiefly in fresh stable manure, but also in fermenting rubbish. ' From these eggs maggots hatch out, which feed upon this material, and .in a few days in midsummer are full-grown and pupate, and from the pupal shells they emerge as perfect flies a few days later.

“Keep all food from contamination by flies, particularly foods'to he eaten cold or uncooked.

“Keep milk covered with net or muslin. and meat and food in wire safes or covers. *

“Keep the flies out of ...e rooms with gauze screens on doors and windows. “Kill flies by placing formalin in saucers in the rooms (one tablespoonful to a pint of Water) and sprinkle pyretlirum (insect powder) inside the windows, 0 r burn a little in the room. “Prevent flies from developing bv removing stable manure every three days, and keep it covered 1 up. All kitchen rubbish and garbage should be covered up and buried or burnt.”