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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 47, 9 February 1945, Page 6

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ISSUED BY THE DEPT. OF HEALTH ✓ /• N N • 9 • . x x • . ' \ v From Compost Heap ¥ to Your comes the filthy fly In one suburban street alone a recent official inspection disclosed FIVE successive backyard compost heaps alive with fly maggots round the edges. If you are troubled with flies, if your food has been contaminated, if you have suffered from summer diarrhoea you know where to look. It is quite likely that the nuisance is traceable to your compost heap — or your neighbours'. Gardeners who have a heap of compost or- manure can be saboteurs of health, unless they take precautions. Look at your heap. You need not look further than the first few surface inches at the edges, sides and top. This is where you'll find maggots—and if you dig a spade deep within two or three feet of the compost heap you may find fly pupae, brown and hard-shelled. YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS : Your compost heats up sufficiently to kill fly-breeding if you strip the top and side six inches and turn it into the centre of the heap, where it is hottest. Do this once a week. Eggs and maggots will be destroyed. As an alternative — if this is too much bother-—have your heap completely covered so that flies can't reach it. But this is not nearly so effective as the refuse is probably already fly-blown when thrown on the heap. A FLY-INFESTED COMPOST HEAP CAN BECOME A PLAQUE SPOT! FOR A HEALTHIER NATION

'X'HERE is one crucial battle underlying all the feats of allied arms—a continuing battle which will reach its very peak of intensity in the years of liberation, and in which half-hearted efforts today can well jeopardise the peace for generations to come. In this battle, the Battle for Food—New Zealand has the great responsibility of a great producer of meat and dairy produce. Amongst these "protective" foods, pig meats hold a pre-eminent place, being not only high in general nutritional values but probably the highest available general source of many "B complex" vitamins now known to be essential for good health. And in addition to Pacific needs, supplies to Britain will help New Zealand bacon producers to establish Sks' i WrS^Sm s'£>ht to a share of the market when other countries are again seeking outlets JCmW m mmmm M .mtm Mm* * n ® r ' ta ' n * °nce again the Tomoana Baconer Competition emphasises the need now for quantity, quality, and suitability of type. TOMOANA BACONER COMPET/I/ON M ™ Eighty-one prizes, totalling £400, and including £50 for the North Island J&Sm Championship, will be awarded for the best line of four pigs each not JBr MS rnr SB exceeding 120 lbs. live weight as at February 28th, 1945, the final date for §S MSM receipt of entries. \y? EVERY FARMER CAN ENTER ... ANY FARMER CAN WIN For full particulars and entry forms apply to W. & R. FLETCHER (N.Z.) LTD. Siyi BSjjSI'SFES? ( Local Representative), or write P.O. Box 17, Auckland; P.O. Box 663, Wellington; P.O. Box 105, Hamilton; or ask your District Pig Council Supervisor. ' ' >S Q T8.3.24