WAR ON FLIES

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 236, 24 December 1927, Page 19

WAR ON FLIES

Flies are difficult enemies to vanquish, but the housewife who makes up her mind to meet the pest at the door, so to speak, and there extinguish him-* is the true guardian of her family s health and comfort. The fly carries dirt and disease; it thinks nothing of coming direct from contaminated food, or rubbish heaps, to your kitchen and your dining room. The best remedy against its ravages is Prevention. Now, before it makes a Persistent appearance, clean out and disinfect with paraffin, or carbolic, every possible breeding place—along iedges, behind doors and screens, in dust bins, and so on. OBNOXIOUS TO FLIES Oil of penny royal is very obnoxious to flies. Get a bottle from the chemist, sprinkle a few drops upon sheets of blotting-paper and put them in wardrobes. drawers, etc. Also smear a httle on crevices, floor skirtings and all places likely to become fly haunts. This will work wonders in keeping a way the pests. TO DESTROY FLIES these precautions are taken in tune there should be little trouble with “J es > except those that enter ifle windows. To prevent this, it is a Soot! plan to stretch and tack mosquito Petting outside the windows —especithe kitchen ones. , A good mixture to place about, the in saucers is made as follows: vv ell mix together one pint infusion of quassia, four ounces of moist sugar one ounce of pepper. Flies will u *° this and it will kill them. u you prefer sticky fly-paper (which 8 really rather objectionable) make it this way: Take one ounce of resin, ounce of castor oil, a little honey a small piece of beeswax. Melt JI together and spread on firm paper. Little muslin bags filled with cloves hung in windows and doorways hi drive away flies; they also object 0 Mignonette in the window boxes l