Mexico weekly ledger., 1883-04-19
A Fly Mandatory.

heir full capacity. rileS are iucu- >
'ated from eggs by an artificial hatch a
ng arrangement, and the young flies =
re taught all the deviItry they know q
light in the factory. Some will look &
lpon this statement as false, and
why an association of men I
'hould engage in the artificial propa- , ,
ration of the fly. We will explain. ;;
It is %well-known flies die at the end
If a season, and if it were not for /:
propagation, there would be
lone the second season. The parties
hat are engaged in this industry are
also sole manufacturers Of fy-paper
and 1y-traps. We trust that the OBJ
ject is now plain. In order to sell
their paper and traps it IS necessary
to have game to catch. The gentle
men had engaged largely in the man
ufacture Of fiY-paper and fy-traps
before they knew that flies only lasted
one season, and after a year of sue
cess they found bankruptcy staring
them in the face, as it was probable
they would not sell a sheet of paper
the next year. So they organized the
'Great American Artificial Incubating
Association of New jersey" and IS
sued q million dollars worth of stock.
We have no room to describe the
Matching Of flies, but it is like hatch
ing 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 20
minutes, and are ready in half an
hour to learn the business. First
they are taught to wade in butter,
to swim in cream, and to get into
things around the kitchen. Then the
young flies are taken to the dormitory
where men and women, engaged for
the purpose, are pretending to sleep.
An old fly and a hundred young ones
are placed in each room, and the old
fly, after lighting on shirt bosoms of
female white goods, in order to teach
the young flies the noble art Of pune
~tuation, begins to get in his work on
the sleeper. The old fly, after seat
ing the young flies on cuffs and col
lars, calls "Attention!'' and after
buzzing around a little, lights on the
sleeper's nose. The sleeper pretends
to be mad, and slaps at the fly; this
is a mere matter of form, however,
for if a sleeper engaged by the asso-
citation kills an old stool fly, it is de.
Quoted from his or her salary. As
the old fly gets away, the young flies
laugh and want to try it themselves.
Then the old fly lights upon the lady
sleeper's big toe, and proceeds de.
liberately to walk up her foot, ankle
and calf, occasionally stopping to bite.
This is very trying to the alleged
slespers, causing nervousness and {
tvitching of the muscles, but they
must not injure the fly. The little
flies notice everything, and, after ths
old fly has caroused around, and tick
led and buzzed, then the yonng file:
are allowed to practice on them. Th,
persons practiced on get IS a da,
and board, and it IL q very particular
and trying situation. Then comes
the expensive business of distributing
flies throughout the country. Form
= erly 1t was done through book agent
and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., but tina
was found too expensive /; sothe asso
citation originated the idea Of sendinl
! out regular agents, called tramps, t.
. introduce flies. The first year onl,
! about 16, 200 tramps were sent out
! but the business has grown to sue
Z huge proportions that 1t is estimates
: that this year the association has on
500, 900 tramps leaving flies around
They go from house to house beg
= ging, and before they leave the
I manage to drop a few flies. Fac
e tramp has a card with a millio
y young flies on it. After he has PAL
g taken of his meal, and the woman @
e the house is out for a shot gun O
u dog to drive him away, he slips hi
hand up his sleeve and tears off
piece of card containing, perhap:
10, 1000 young flies, and drops it i
5 the wood box or in some convenier
place. That is enough to start OF
> as the flies breed rapidly. The ne,
, day the wsman will wonder "whel
Uu dlEbu oil tucul utCS CdDuc lIUIu.
u The company has distributing point
u all over the country-Chicago, S
! Louis and st. Paul being anon
- them-where the tramps go n C
month after a new supply. A cal
viii last thirty days. The introdu'
ton of the ay-paper and the ay-tral
% is easier, ss the articles are sent d
reetly TO druggists. who sell them
u consumers. Stock in the associate
e is worth an immense amount, payir
" a quarterly dividend of twenty p
u cent. The only way that the fly nu
sance can be abated is to kill Il
tramps as fast as they enter q cor
N munity, or destroy the manufactoi
at New Jersey. We have expos,
the nefarious business; now let Il
As people rise up and crush it out
D. existence.
In all thy Gettings, Get strength.
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