TO MINIMISE FLIES.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 7, Issue 342, 4 January 1918, Page 4

TO MINIMISE FLIES.

A Fiv ich jouinai sffateg that it has !>een fou.ld that flies have a great objection 10 the color blue, and if tenements infested with ilies are washed with a hi tie instead of' a white wash, flies ivill desert the, place. In support of this uhe following itofctanoe is reported : A fancier had 170 c.QM's housed in differcrtr .sheds; they weire pestered with flies but he obsen*?d that in one shed, the walls of which were a blue tint, tl<> cows were not; worried. Ho therefore atjded a bl'ae color to the lime with which he masked the walls of his *iiWlitigs, 'divi from that time i,he flies jifve deserved the place. The following jjjrmula la used by him for the wajs i~ Xo twnrf.y gallons of water add 101b. of lime and lU* of ultramarine. The wruli ing is done twice during the sumftier.