ce should it visit our food or open wounds or sores.
Anthrax bacilli are carried about and deposited by flies showing the
possibility of the disease being spread in this way.

Some believe that leprosy, smallpox and many other diseases are carried
by the house-fly, so it is little wonder that it is fast losing its
standing as a household companion and that we are beginning to regard it
not only as a nuisance but as a source of danger which should no longer
be tolerated in any community.

Of course only a small per cent of the flies that visit our food in the
dairies or market places or kitchens actually carry dangerous diseases,
but they are all bred in filth and it is not possible without careful
experiments or laboratory analysis to determine whether any of the germs
among the millions that are on their bodies are dangerous or not. The
chances that they may be are too great. The only safe way is to banish
them all or to see that all of our food is protected from them.

FIGHTING FLIES

Screens and sticky fly-paper have their places and give some little
relief in a well-kept house. But of what use is it to protect your food
after it has entered your home if in the stores, in the market place, in
the dairy barn, or dairy wagon, in the grocers' and butchers' cart, it
has been exposed to contamination by hundreds of flies that have visited
it.

The problem is a larger one than keeping the house free from flies;
larger but not more difficult, for the remedy is simple, effective,
practicable and inexpensive. Destroy their breeding-places and you will
have no flies. As the flies breed principally in manure the first
remedial measure is to see that all manure is removed from the
barn-yard at least once a week and spread over the fields to dry, for
the flies cannot breed in the dry manure. If it is not practicable to
remove it this often the manure should be kept in a bin that is closed
so tight that no flies can get into it to lay their eggs. Sometimes the
manure may be treated with some substance such as kerosene, crude oil,
chlorid of lime, tobacco water or mixture of two or more of these and
thus rendered unsuitable for the flies to breed in, but in general
practice none of them has been found very satisfactory for the treatment
is either not thorough enough or is too expensive of time and material.

Outdoor privies and cesspools must be carefully attended to. The latter
can be easily covered so no flies can get in