The best way to protect your home from flies is to place suitable wire screens over your doors and windows. Be sure these screens are well fitted, so that small flies cannot find their way through the cracks. Screen doors should be made to swing outwards, so that flies lurking near by will be pushed away when the door is opened.
Flies inside the house may be exterminated in various ways. For example, the fly swatter is quite effective. Here is another simple, inexpensive method of getting rid of flies. Just make a mixture as follows:
a) 3 Tablespoons of formalin solution
b) 1 Tablespoon of sugar
c) 1 Pint of water
Place some of this mixture in a small glass jar. Cover it with a small piece of blotting-paper and a saucer turned upside down.Then invert the glass jar, so that the saucer and the blotting-paper are now at the bottom. Next, place a thin match-stick or toothpick under the rim of the glass. This will allow some of the fluid to ooze out around the blotting-paper.Flies attracted to the liquid will be quickly and painlessly destroyed. Be sure to keep this glass of poison fluid out of the reach of young children and animals.
Protect your foods by keeping them in a good ice-box, refrigerator or screened meat-safe. This will help to prevent foods from spoiling. It will also keep out flies and other pests. A good refrigerator will pay for itself in time by the food it saves.
If you eat at a restaurant, be sure that the place is clean and tidy. Remember, any place that has flies and vermin is not a healthy place in which to eat. If you are particular in these things, the restaurant owner will be more likely to keep his promises clean and wholesome, thus the whole community will benefit.
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