TO KILL FLIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 5 December 1913, Page 4

TO KILL FLIES.

Flies are a pest. Everybody admits it—particularly the bald-headed man. The house-fly of New Zealand is 110 better and .no worse than the housefly in other countries. Like the Red Fed., fc is übiquitous. It is to be; found almost everywhere. And it carries infection in its wings. The spider is the natural enemy to the fly, but it is po its operations that ,it is almost useless. Its web, too—like other webs we have read about—is a terribl^nuifiance. How-: ever) it is to know that' a New Zealander has patented an invention for capturing flies. It takes the form ,of a frame that carries a little tray, and is attached to the window. The tray is filled with kerosene, . the fumes of which rise under the hriat of the sun. Flies walking on thci glass are overcome by the fumes, and fall into the tray, where they are drowned. The process is quite simple. It has been tried in Oamaru, and has proved a great success. And what has been a success in Oamaru should be a success anywhere. We have not tried the scheme ourselves, for to us the smell of kerosene is objectionable, but' we have no hesitation in recommending it to our bald-headed friends.