The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-09-06
A NEW JERSEY INDusrRY.
How Flies are PropagaAed by Patent
Hateheries-Full Pledged and Ready
Tor Business In Twenty Minutes-In-
teresting Facts for the Curious
Milwaukee Sun.


Milwaukee Sun.
Flies are artificially propagated il
New Jersey, near Patterson, where ar
association of men have invested capital
and are running the works to their full
capacity.
Flies are incubated from eggs, by an
artificial Matching arrangement and the
young flies are taught all the deviltry
they know right in the factory Some
Will look upon this statement as false
and wonder why any association of men
should engage in the artificial propaga
ton of the fly. We will explain 1t is
well known that flies die at the end OF
the season, and if it were not for artifi
cial propagation, there would be none
for the second season. The parties who
are engaged in this industry are also
sole manufacturers of fly Fpaper and fly
traps. We trust that the object is now
plain. In order to sell their paper and
traps it is necessary to have game to
catch. The gentlemen had engaged
tragedy in the manufacture of fly paper
and fly traps before they knew that flies
only lasted one season, and after yeal
of success they found bankruptcy staring
them in the face, as it was probable they
would not sell sheet of paper the next
year. So they organized the Great
American Artificial Fly Incubating As
ISOLATION of New Jersey and issued 8
million dollars worth of stock.
We have not room to describe the
Matching of flies, in the Sun, but it is
like Matching chickens by steam. Some
of the best old flies are kept to lay eggs
and the eggs are placed on cards and
put into an oven. They hatch out in
twenty minutes and are ready in hall
an hour to learn the business. First
they are taught to wade in butter, tC
swim in cream, and to get into things
around the kitchen. Then the young
fies are taken to the dormitOry, where
men and women engaged for the pur
pose are pretending to sleep. An ole
fly and a hundred young ones are placed
in each room, and the old fly, after light
ing on shirt bosoms or female white
goods in order to teach the young flies
the noble art of punctuation, begins tC
get in its work on the sleeper. The ole
fly after seating the young flies on cuff
and collars, calls, attention. and af
ter buzzing around little lights on the
sleeper's nose. The sleeper pretends Il
be mad, and slaps at the fiy-this is {
mere matter of form, however, for if {
sleeper engaged by the association kills
an old stool fly, it is deducted from hi
or her salary. AS the old fly gets away
the young flies laugh and want to try i
themselves. Then the old fly lights OF
the sleeper's big toe and proceeds DELHI
erately to walk up her foot, ankle anC
calf, occasionally stopping to bite. Thi
is very trying to the alleged sleeper
causing nervousness and twitching o
the muscles, but they must not injur
the fly. The little flies notice ever,
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around, and tickled and buZzed, then tn
young flies are allowed to practice OF
them. The persons practiced on get
SO day and board, and it is very PAL
ticular and trying situation.
Then comes the expensive business o
distributing fies throughout the coun
try. Formerly it was done through
book agents and lightning rod peddlers
but that was found too expensive, so tn
association originated the idea of send
ing out regular agents, called tramps
to itroduce the flies. The first year onl
about 10000 tramps were sent out, bu
| the business has grown to such hug
proportions that it is estimated that thi
year the association has out half mil
lion tramps, leaving fles around. The,
go from house to house begging, and be
| fore they leave they manage to drop
/ million young flies on. After he ha
partaken of his meal, and the woman O
the house is out after shotgun or do
to drive him away, he slips his hand u
his sleeve and tears off a piece of car,
cotaining perhaps 10000 young flies, an
drops it in the woodbox, Oh in some cor
venient place. That is enough to staI
on, as the flies breed rapidly. The mex
day the woman will wonder where OF
earth all them flies come from
| The company has distributing point
all over the country, Chicago, ST. Louis
st. Paul being among them, where tn
tramps go once month after new SUI
ply. A card will last tramp thirt
days. The introduction of the fly pape
and the fly traps is easier, as the article
are sent directly to druggists, who sci
them to consumers. Stock in the assC
citation is worth an immense amour
paying quarterly dividend of invent
per cent. The only way that the fl
nuisance can be abated is to kill tn
tramps as fast as they enter commun
ty, or destroy the mandatory in Me-
Jersey. The Sun has exposed the nef;
rious business; now let the people ris
up and crush it out of existence