The Fly Plague.'

Otago Witness, Issue 2810, 22 January 1908, Page 84

Plague. '

•' Flies "'rarely' -jtratel - nipre^ than a, few. • hundred I yar.ds 'from tiieir~ "breeding ilace." The<iii*lpile r wMi remnants-xjf lood tfirown . outsHefof f-liiV feitchoniiploor* isi^ie/fcS *he - most-iaTouced places for^Saying-'eggsi-^^he '^n^ni^re.ipiled "at the . •sfcable'C is anotherfavoured spot .for, the 'development o£ larvae^ ' "Nes^'-)6f > h^rvae.fihoul4-be;t(6vex!e.d with,-"kero-sene or chjori^ of , lime, or^sprayedfcwitli crude petroleum. "l,v^ ■f^Jfus^,'' should .be "burned," buffed,- br treated with* some germi-cide",-or it should be carefully screened to" prevent -flies, from "breeding in it- Burning 'pyrethruni\' powder'. in x the' house,, will' kill flies. striLenron 'vertiena' 'leaves ""spreay v on the sick bed, or ispraying *iW "bed dothin^ with lemojcf verbea,a>watei> i "wll 1 "keep the 'flies away from the "patient. Say: ruid,"'oil of itansy, pennyroyal, eflßaiwe'SOf >ysitron. have also" 'been' Jpund 4iSjeful ,;as epcays in. ■the «iek room. -i^ppd^tjlffs, t t fish", and vegetables* should "be .carefjjJJyf, guarded from •"-k'-'- *..■..*;..->' **,*•', *z*\- -.^ '-''1