Home-made Fly Spray
Dear Aunt Daisy, Some time ago I think you gave over the air a recipe for fly-spray. Was it one part wintergreen and 99 parts water? Also, are home-made fly-papers, any good? I would be most grateful to hear.-Seatoun. The fly spray is oil of wintergreen one part, and kerosene (not water) the other 99 parts. In ordinary practice we used to mix a pint bottle of kerosene with sixpennyworth of wintergreen, and spray vigorously with that. To make the "tanglefoot mixture," melt a small quantity of resin and add_ sufficient castor oil to give it the consistency of honey when cold. Spread on’ sheets of parchment or other paper, or use on lengths of fencing wire and hang from ceiling. The wires can be cleaned by boiling, or soaking in boiling water, then used again.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 250, 6 April 1944, Page 23
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139Home-made Fly Spray New Zealand Listener, Volume 10, Issue 250, 6 April 1944, Page 23
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