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Publication Review

Title: The House Fly and How to Suppress it
Author: L. O. Howard & F. C. Bishopp, 1926
File: Free Book, PDF 101 KB, 23 pages

Review
An early U. S. Department of Agriculture Farmer's Bulletin. A lengthy discussion of what was known about the house fly in 1926. Includes tips for eliminating the pest in one's home. Some information is dated by today's health standards. But still an interesting text.

Table of Contents

  1. Kinds of flies found in houses
  2. Where the true house fly lays its eggs
  3. How the house fly passes the winter
  4. Carriage of disease by the house fly
  5. Excluding and capturing flies
  6. The use of screens
  7. Fly papers and poisons
  8. Fly sprays
  9. Flytraps
  10. Preventing the breeding of flies
  11. Construction and care of stables
  12. Fly-tight manure pits
  13. Frequency with which manure should be removed in cities and towns
  14. Health office regulations for control of house flies in cities
  15. Disposal of manure in rural and suburban districts
  16. Chemical treatment of manure to destroy fly maggots
  17. Maggot trap for destruction of fly larvae from horse manure
  18. Compact heaping of manure
  19. Garbage disposal and treatment of miscellaneous breeding places
  20. Sewage disposal in relation to the prevention of fly-borne diseases
  21. What communities can do to eliminate the house fly