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Cotton Keeping I Flies From Noose Raleigh.?As Its single con tribution to the health of the Nation, and with a profound bow to good neighbor Virginia, State News Bureau here presents. In full, the following story from the Hamlet, N. C.,_News-Messeng er, C. A. Martin editor and pub lisher: "Mrs. John Raby of Hamlet has Just returned from a visit with her sister, -Mrs, Russell Pri vett, at Norfolk, and with her she has brought stories of a novel method being used by Virginia housewives to rid their homes of flies. "Around Norfolk and Rich mond they are using, believe it or not, wads of plain cotton to turn the trick. No, they don't catch-the flies and smother them with the lint?they simply fasten the cotton on their door screens and that does the trick. "Mrs. Raby reports that the method is effective. She says that cotton wads can be Seen 0 4 tTJW! Delivers dependable comfort to keep yotmhomp snugly, com fortably. warm. Holcomb Bre&, Inc. Phone 254, Elkin, N. C. on almost every front door In Norfolk. "According to a story by Sara Reaves in the Virginia-Pilot, it all started in Norfolk after Mrs. Jack Caleo got the tip while vis iting relatives in Richmond. It seems that housewives there have found cotton on their screens an effective weapon against flies. "When Mrs. Caleo returned home, she tried the remedy and it worked for her. Neighbors who had scoffed at the idea also tried it and found it effective. " 'I simply haven't seen a fly on the screen since I put that cotton up,' ? Mrs. Caleo said. " 'On other cloudy days like yesterday,' she explained, 'flies would hover on the back screen ready to pounce in three or four at a time when the door was opened. But not yesterday.' "The cotton miraculously seemed to change all that. The flies stayed away. Occasionally the bolder ones would fly over to see if the cotton were still there, and would then retreat. While they might pause on the side of the house, none stopped to rest on the door. "How or why a hunk of plain absorbent cotton 'about the size of the palm of a hand'?with no chemicals on it?would drive a way flies when pinned to a screen door, no one seems to have figured out. " 'Housewives i n Richmond were throwing away their spray guns as fast ts they pinned on the wads of cotton,' Mrs. Caleo said. 'But I wasn't quite thit sure until I found out for my self that the scheme really works. I don't know why, but it must work every time.' "Mrs. Caleo said that the cot ton can be placed anywhere on the screen and fastened by a safety pin, hair pin, bobby pin, or anything that will hold it on. "The day after the first story about the cotton wad fly remedy appeared in the Virginian-Pilot at Norfolk, Dr. John Huff, head of the Norfolk City Health De partment, said that he had tried the stunt and found it effective. "A second article by Miss Reaves said that the cotton story also had turned up home methods guaranteed to get rid of water bugs, roaches and fleas. "Oyster shells placed under the sink were reported as a sure cure for water bugs and roaches. And fleas are supposed to meet their downfall when they go af ter a small hunk of raw meat placed in middle of fly paper." Support Y. M. C. A. Home Dry Cleaning Can Be Dangerous Home dry cleaning is danger ous, especially during the winter months when the activities of housewives are more confined to the house, says ? Mrs. Annie H. Greene, home demonstration a gent for the State College Exten sion Service. Records of the National Safety Council show that home dry cleaning with flammable cleaning fluids has disfigured or fatally burned many persons and has caused houses to be burned to the ground or demolished by explosions. "It is much safer and more ef fective to have your cleaning done by a commercial dry clean ing establishment," the home agent declares. "Never, under any circumstances, should gaso line, naptha, or kerosene be used for garment cleaning purposes," she adds. Mrs. Greene explains* that a fluid may be marked "non-ex plosive" and still be flammable. It is imperative that only a non flammable cleaning fluid be used, she asserts. For persons who must dry clean at home, the National Saf ety Council recommends follow ing these safety rules at all times: Store cleaning fluids outside the house in a marked container. Do the dry cleaning outside the house, where toxic and other vapors will be quickly dissipated. Keep hands out of solvent use a suction washer. Avoid getting cleaning fluid on clothing or exposed parts of the body. Dry garments or articles thor oughly outside before taking them into the house. Keep children at a safe -dist ance from the cleaning opera tion. Observe these precautions even in removing spots from gar ments. SlIPPORf ^HE v M C- K. Bulletin Discusses Growing Of Pullets "Good pullets to fill the lay ing house should be the object of everyone raising chicks for layers," two extension poultry specialists at State College de clare in a new bulletin which has Just been published. The specialists are Thomas B. Morris and C. P. Parrish, whose eight-hage illustrated circular,1 entitled "Grow Better Pullets," is filled with practical sugges-l tions for poultrymen. "Usually too little thought and care are given to the young' stock after the breeding period," , Morris and Parrish say. "A well-, p'.anned chick raising program is essential in growing birds that will develop into profitable lay jers." The authors discuss shelters, feeders, and waterers for use on the range. They also take up such points as grazing crops, | shade, vaccination for chicken pox, and housing of the birds. 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