DOWN but not out
Millions upon millions of FLIES are waiting to take the place of the one just killed. weren’t enough, his built-in radar detects the movement of your arm as it comes in to get him. THE ANSWER. Kill flies where they breed before they have a chance to reproduce millions of progeny, just one of which can carry on its tiny body, over bacteria, and can spread over a flight area of 5 square miles, scores of infectious diseases. Some of these are tuberculosis, diarrhoea, food poisoning, undulant fever, conjunctivitis, “summer sickness”, dysentery, typhoid, etc. His filthy habits of vomiting and constantly passing liquid waste, menace health.
The fly has a short life but a merry one. Flies believe in large families. It*s nothing to Mrs. Fly to produce tao eggs in a day and repeat the performance four to six times her life of a few weeks. Meantime, her fickle mate is on the wing again for another fly-by-night conquest. FACTS ABOUT FLIES. Did you know that a fly flies pt only 4| miles an hour or about the pace a horse walks ? Why then is he so maddeningly hard tp swat ?
Because he has four thousand lenses for eyes: he's slicker than a jet plane he can fly rapidly sideways, and, as if that
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28793, 14 January 1959, Page 15
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219DOWN but not out Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28793, 14 January 1959, Page 15
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