THE FLY PEST.

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 13, 17 January 1933, Page 6

THE FLY PEST.

(To the Editor.) Sir,—"Flies" has written a good letter on the pest, but it may be interesting to your readers to say that we always manage to keep our house, in Kelburn, entirely free from flies with little difficulty All that is needed is to have a fly-bat" of gauze, and costing 6d or 9d, and when the flies began, one by one, to appear in the spring, to kill them off. In that way we find that they have no.chance to multiply and the result is that by killing off say, half a dozen a day, perhaps less, we are not troubled with them. We keep our doors and windows open freely, and we even have a heap of lawn grass clippings ripening throughout the season. We do not have much smell of foods on account of ventilation. Everyone knows that flies multiply at a tremendous rate, and even one pair at the beginning of the summer, which it may be thought unnecessary to destroy, will soon increase" and fill the house. It is, of course, too late to adopt this plan now for this season, but householders would be well advised to apply such an easy method next season. Plies are very- dirty and are a grave menace to health If anyone is troubled with blowflies it will be found that the slightest drop of kerosene will kill them, as if shot with a gun. A little dish or tin with kerosene will therefore be useful and small tin troughs to rest on a window can be bought.—l am, etc., -■'■'■ ANTI-FLY.