Agricultural News Volume 10 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...burying, or by treating with lime or chloride of lime. The greatest care is necessary in disposing of manure and all excrementitious matter, especially in the case of human excrement during the occurrence of typhoid fever in any locality. On estates, much could probably be accomplished by carefully cleaning up all garbage and rubbish and adding these to the manure pile, which might be thoroughly covered with mould once each week. Kerosene as a contact insecticide is fatal to the larvae and pupae of flies, and has adistinct value in treating privy vaults where these are not cleaned out frequently. On' estates where flies are abundant 'and the treatment of their breeding places is found to be diflicult, dwellings, or at least kitchens and dining-rooms should be made inaccessible to flies by means of screens at doors and windows, in order to protect food from these pests. If everyone would remember that flies live, grow and reach maturity in filth, and that where opportunity offers the winged adults make their way directly from their filthy breeding places to food which they contaminate always with uncleanness and often with disease, the necessity for fly control might be more thoroughly realized. This realization should be assisted by the knowledge that flies also visit all sorts of loathsome sores, and frequently carry the causative organism to healthy individuals. LOCOMOTION OF YOUNG SCALE INSECTS. In an article bearing the heading given above, which appeared in a recent number of the Journal of Economic Entomology (Vol. IV, p. 301) Mr. H. J. Quayle, of the Agricultural Experiment Station, Berkeley, California, gives the results of experiments on the powers of locomotion of the young of the black scale (Saissctia oleae, Bern), ...