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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 294, 9 February 1945, Page 4

ISSUED BY THE DEPT: OF HEALTH From compost Heap to Your Food comes the filthy fly In one suburban streec 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 II 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 5 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 PLAGUE SPOT ! I4 FOR A HEALTHIER NATION Conlentment with from CRIB to COT A ANKORIR ALWAYS SAFE BABY FOod LL C H � Mi$T$ 00 A Product 0f the New Zealand Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltdj, Anzao Avenue, Auckland. Ankoria