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Taranaki Daily News, 13 January 1917, Page 6

FLIES, MOTHS AND BEETLES. THE FARMERS' 'BESTS. In all large towns the fly pest is an ever-present evil, and strenuous efforts are made every summer to combat it. FlieS are great disease carriers, being particularly dangerous to babies and young children, and account for a good deal of our infantile death rate. They also cause great damage by soiling wallpaintwork and furniture but in country districts, moths, beetles and all sorts of Hying insects are. added to the ily pest, and the householder has the choice of either keeping them out by closing the ioors and windows in the hottest weather, when ventilation is most requhed, or being worried by them both clay and night. In farm houses where kerosene lamps are used for lighting moths and Hies cause great trouble by breaking globes, and in country towns where gas is available they are equally "destructive to gas mantles, thus greatly increasing the lighting bill . Jn the latest model lamps now being fitted to the famous ''Wizard Gas Lighting System" for country home; and stores, this difficulty has been entirely overcome. The new "Wizard" Lamps are entirely fly and moth proof, and are covered by a special patent, so no matter how numerous the flies and moths are they cannot get into the globe and destroy the mantles. Many "Wizard" Light users are still using the original mantles supplied with the .lamps after twelve to eighteen months' nise, and are naturally pleased to make this important saving in the cost of upkeep which is very low The mantles supplied with '-Wizard" Lamps are manufactured by a patent process, and will stand a lot of rough usage. Before being burnt oft' they can be posted in an ordinary business envelope, and are unbreakable. Farmers and country storekeepers should write to Messrs Early Bros., 59 Cuba street, Wellington, for further information, about the '•Wizard" Light. Nearly two thousand eomplote plants have already been sold in New Zealand, including a large number to the Government for use in Post Offices, Wireless Stations, etc., and the fact that these lamps are used in many of the finest country homos and farm houses in tlie Dominion hears tetsimony to tljeir merits.—Gil,