p. 12 | A Campaign Against the Fly

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · May 21, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 20.

A Campaign Against the Fly

The city of Cleveland has offered a bounty of two cents for each one hundred flies killed within its limits. Special importance is attached to killing them early in the year, as it is stated that each fly killed at the beginning of the season means the prevention of 7,600,000 flies from coming into being by fall. It is suggested in many quarters that a general campaign against the fly should be urged throughout the country. The fly is one of the greatest agencies of spreading typhoid fever and similar diseases, and it can be eradicated by carefully cleaning up all its breeding places, such as manure heaps, garbage dumps, and the like.