KEEP THE STABLES CLEAR OF FLIES.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2640, 22 September 1882, Page 3

KEEP THE STABLES CLEAR OF FLIES.

One of the greatest hindrances to thrift during hot weather ia the annoyance caused by flies. This is true both in field and stable. In the former we cannot, in any considerable degree, control them, but in the latter we can. The better class of stables should be provided with screens. By this mode, fumigation being practised to drive the flies out, the slock may be quite well protected. The placing of small vessels of chloride of lime about the ceiling will sometimes answer the purpose of keeping them out of the building. If a decoction of lycopodium (sometimes called wolf’s claw), which is the largest of the European mosses, be placed in a bladder, the neck being supplied with a quill nozzle, by means of which the liquid can be sprinkled whore the flies accumulate, early in the morning, the effect upon the flies will soon be seen, as it quite promptly destroys them. This article is also used to destroy vermin. Large numbers of flies may be destroyed by hanging up a small bundle of motherwort, or a small willow bush, suspended by a string from the ceiling- The flies will be attracted by the smell, settling in large numbers upon the bush. At night a wide-mouthed bag may be held under the bush, and the string out, when the whole will drop into the bag, and the flies may be destroyed in any convenient way. The stable may be fumigated by burning dry, rotten oow dung. Flies are utterly unable to tolerate the pungent odor of this burning dung, and if the doors or windows be opened at the proper time they will leave the stable. By keeping cattle or horses protected with light covers, made of bagging or other stout, cheap material, and oiling their legs with strong fiqb oil each morning, much of the annoyance from flies may bo easily overcome. Cattle may bo turned out to grass with such covers on for a portion of each day, if thought desirable, and by applying the fish oil to their legs as they go I out, quite an immunity will be secured against ' the attacks of flies.