KILLING FLIES
All the methods of killing flies—keeping them on fly papers till they starve, drowning thorn, smashing them with paper batons, and so one—are to be superseded by a new method' —electrocution. "The latest effort in the 'swat-the-fly' campaign," says Popular Mechanics, "is an electric death-trap which, although clever in conception and design, seems too expensive ever to come into more than very limitad use. The apparatus consists of a kind of cage, with a glowing electric lamp and a piece of meat isside, ami four lamps, to act as safety valves, outside. Electric current of 450 volts is turned on through these wires, and the flies are attracted within the cage by the picco of meat or other suitable bait. The lamp inside serves also to draw the flies, the external lamps being employed to prevent damage from the short-circuiting of the. current when the flies are electrocuted."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 140, 16 December 1911, Page 10 (Supplement)
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150KILLING FLIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 140, 16 December 1911, Page 10 (Supplement)
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