. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . ossible to prevent flies from breeding in a stable unlessthe floor is tight, dry, well drained and properly constructed. Taking careof the manure pile is easy though even more important. It must be , the manure box must be emptied once a week. It takes fliesten days to develop from mother through eggs, larvae and pupae into empty the manure box every week is to kill most of the young and to getthe balance away from your neighborhood though you may be harming theneighborhood where you dump them. FALL FLY DANGER There are many women w
. Dr. Evans' How to keep well; . ossible to prevent flies from breeding in a stable unlessthe floor is tight, dry, well drained and properly constructed. Taking careof the manure pile is easy though even more important. It must be , the manure box must be emptied once a week. It takes fliesten days to develop from mother through eggs, larvae and pupae into empty the manure box every week is to kill most of the young and to getthe balance away from your neighborhood though you may be harming theneighborhood where you dump them. FALL FLY DANGER There are many women who advocate the double standard for theirhomes—one for bugs and another for flies. There are other women who runtheir homes on the single standard—no bedbugs and no more flies than bed-bugs. Those single standard women boast of their homes during this summerseason. They worked on the theory that the flies came in the house for kept their homes so clean that the flies found more food outside than fig 0 s I Oh 1 A ^a. 936 INSECTS in, and, therefore, did not try to find holes in the screens or to get in throughopen doors. As the weather begins to get cool they find that their plan does not workso well. The reason is that the flies are now seeking the house for anotherreason; they want to keep warm. A clean house is nearly as much soughtafter as a dirty one. When the temperature falls well below 70° flies suffer greatly. They be-come stiff in wing and leg and they move slowly. When the temperature getsabout 50° they cannot move at all. In controlling disease health officers try to push back the contagion littleby little until the foci of infection are few whereupon they redouble theirefforts and try to bring about its disappearance. Flies in October have reached the stage where they could be made a dis-appearing plague. The August effort to control, if duplicated in October,would make them disappear. Therefore the single standard housewife should get out her swatter
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