ANTI-FLY HINTS
HOW TO OPEN THE. CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE GERM PEST'. The flyi season has begun, says the London Daily Mail. The disease-carry-ing pest is to be cleared this summer as never before. Useful instructions are to clean up larders, sculleries, and backyards. Get a new tight-fitting lid for the dust-bin, and see that that neighbour of yours destroys that uncovered manure heap. Cover all food with wire-netting fiyshields, and put up fly screens of the same material in the larder and kitchen windows. If your dust-bin is not j emptied often enough communicate with j the health officer of your district. Flies love the light, so a good plan is to paint the woodwork of windows with petroleum once or twice a month. Another efficacious anti-fly remedy is to place over-night in the kitchen, dining, and living rooms saucers of a solution made by adding a teaspoonful of formalin to half a pint of milk aud' water. Place a bit of bread in the centre of the saucer as an "isiand," on which the , flies can alight to drink. j
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Nelson Evening Mail, 31 July 1916, Page 7
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181ANTI-FLY HINTS Nelson Evening Mail, 31 July 1916, Page 7
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