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Thursday, June 20, 1912.] THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER Health Topics MOSQUITOES. AVhat They Do, How They Do It, and How to I*revent Tlieni. Mosquito prospects are fine this season—for the mosquito. All they need is a little more time. They will do the rest. Wet weather, with abundance of water standing about in ponds, swamps, puddles, rain bar rels, old tin cans, bottles, dishes, loof spouting, etc., furnishes ideal mosquito conditions. Add to this from one to two weeks of warm weather and the result will be mar velous. Thousands of mosquitoes will appear as if by magic. AVhat Mosquitoes Do. Of course a few will bite you while others will hum and buzz around your ears in a tortuous way when 3'Ou wish to sleep, rest, or read. But this is the least of the trouble. What they may do is to inject the tiniest amount of malarial germs into your blood. That will give you malarial chills and fever for months or years, make you generally inefficient, impoverish your blood, and make you the easy Pi’oy of scores of other diseases that ' oil would not otherwise contract. Approximately 550 North Carolin ians died of malaria last year, and several times as many died of other diseases because their bodies were in snch an "all-run-down” condition due to malaria and the mosquito bite that they contracted every other dis ease to which they were at all li able. How to Prevent Mosquitoes. Fortunately the mosquito is not a STeat traveler. He usually resides - Within from one hundred to five hun dred feet of his birthplace. Winds may occasionally drive him farther away, but like the fiy, he is very domestic. Therein lies our cue. De stroy his breeding places around our mmes and we have turned the trick, ff the average householder in the would have removed all his old tin cans, bottles, tubs, barrels, buck ets, and other vessels containing w'a- t'r, if he would examine his roof sprouting and cellar to see that there m no stale water, and if he would mther fill or drain all low wet holes, * s mosquito pests would be decreas- ^ over half. If he can succeed in Setting his neighbors on both sides to do the same thing, he will have esp than a fourth of an average mos- duito crop. If he can get all the People in his block to abolish all eir mosquito breeding places and ^ eep them abolished for the summer te will not have one mosquito where te had ten last year, and when the ntire town learns to follow suit, mosquitoes will be found only in the "Museums. MOSQUITOES. . So much has been written and said P the past ten or twenty years about jj^osquitoes and their malign agency P the spread of certain diseases that ^ seems as if there is little left to be md. That would be true if people Ply took in all that was told them Pfl acted upon the knowledge so ac- ^^mired. But although we know how ^ exterminate mosquitoes or at least jO diminish materially their numbers, is only recently, and here and steps have been taken en them, and this in spite of the j,^PP^ous discomfort and misery they Use, let alone their pernicious ac- '^mty ill perpetuating malaria. PJ’e are many varieties of mos- Th but only three kinds that dUitoes, jUPcern us in this country very deep- Tliese varieties are distinguish ed as belonging to the genera, Culex, Anopheles and Stegomyia. The first-named includes the ordi nary fiercely biting mosquito of tem perate parts. It is suspected, and with some good reason, of spreading dengue, or “breakbone” fever—a dis tressing disease occurring in epidem ics in the Southern States. The mosquitoes of the second class are the greatest enemy man has among the gnats, for they convey the germ of malaria, and it is probable that without them this disease would cease to exist. The third genus em braces the yellow-fever mosquitoes. By destroying them in large numbers, and preventing the survivors from biting persons sick with yellow fever, this disease has been driven out of Havana, Panama and Rio de Janeiro. The mosquitoes exist, however, in great numbers in the southern part of our country, and so long as they od, and so long as yellow fever exists in the coast towns of Mexico and Central America, just so long are we liable to recurrence of epidemics of the disease in places bordering on the Gulf of Mexico. Mosquitoes lay their eggs in stag nant water, so their extermination is theoretically easy—do away with mud-holes, swamps and stagnant pools. Practically, however, the af fair is not so simple, for it involves the drainage of swamps, the stocking of ponds with the fish which feed on mosquito eggs, the clearing away of weeds and bushes from the borders of ponds and streams, the screening of cisterns and tanks, the covering with a film of oil of pools which can not be drained, and many other troublesome measures. The reward, however, is great, as some communi ties in which a mosquito campaign has -b^en waged know to their joy. Fortunately, mosquitoes do not travel far, and a public-spirited community which has rid itself of the mosquito pest has little to apprehend from its lazy neighbor a few miles away.—■ Youth’s Companion. Page Three RESOLUTIONS OP RESPECT. TO FIGHT MOSQUITOES. The following is from a bulletin published on this subject for use in the Barbadoes Isles: One part oil citronella. One part spirit of camphor. Half part oil of cedars. A few drops sprinkled on a towel and liung over the bed will keep mos quitoes away during the night. W. A. GRAHAM, Commissioner. Lawyer (to witness): "Now, then, Mr. Murphy, give us your last resi dence.” Murphy: "Faith, sir, I dunno; but it’ll be the cimitery, Oi’m think ing’!”—Tit-Bits. Kelly C. Hinnant. Whereas, the Lord in His infinite wisdom has seen proper to take from this vale of tears our beloved broth er, K. C. Kinnant; therefore, be it— Resolved 1. That in the death of Brother Hinnant our Lodge has lost a valued member and the Farmers’ Union an ardent, zealous and sincere advocate. That he longed for the success of our Union and yearned to see the advancement of the prin ciples of the Order in the hearts of the people everywhere. 2. That the community in which he lived has lost an honest, upright citizen and his friends a loving, gen ial companion and his family has suffered a loss that cannot be rem edied. 3. That this Union extends its tru est sympathy to the bereaved family in this hour of their trial and while we grieve at his loss, let us remem ber that he is beyond the troubles of this life and by his loving kindness let our lives be made better because we have known and associated with him. 4. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to his family and the same be spread on the minutes of the Union. 5. That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the Carolina Union Farm- C. S. DAVIS, E. T. SAULS, J. E. OVERMAN, local Secretaries and Agents, Attention! How many of your members have allowed their subscription to expire’ How manv have never taken the paper at all? Get a hold on them now, while we are giving away FREE to each new or renewal subscriber, an Excelsior Wonder Knife worth iL more than the subscription price.. Send us five yearly subscribers, and get the paper and knife for yourself FREE This offer will not last long. Use this blank. SUBSCRIPTION BLANK > . I . 1 I 1 ) ■ THE CAROLINA UNION FARMER Raleigh, N. C. Gentlemen: Enclosed you will find.. Check, Money Order, Cash or Stamps for I For the following subscriptions: NAME POSTOFFICE R. F. D. No. - Yours fraternally. County Address all letters and make all checks, money orders, etc., payable to The Carolina Union eigh, N. C. N. C. Farmer, Ral- .,1’ If if : I 11 I I u i :"i I i
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