Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1917-05-04
Fly Fight
Made Easy
Simple Cone Trap Best, Say.
Uncle Sam in Bulletin
for Farmers
WHAT BATS TO USE

fytrap that Is most effective in
trapping flies may be made of a cylin.
der of screen wire inclosing a cone of
screen wire, says the United States de-
partment of agriculture In Farmers
Bulletin 734, 'T1ytraps and Their OPP
Grafton" The trap may be made at
home easily and consists of a screen
cylinder "a inches high and IS inches
in diameter. The screen is nailed to
barrel hoops at the top and bottom.
Four laths are nailed to the hoops as
vertical pieces to make the trap rigid.
At the bottom the legs project an inch
below the hoop.
The cone is inserted in the bottom Of
the cylinder, being tackled to the bot
tom hoop. The cone is IS inches in
diameter at the base and one inch in
diameter at the apex, or top. 1t is
% inches high. The edges of the cone
ire soldered or sewed together with
wire. The top Of the trap is made of
barrel head in which hole 10 inches
square is cut and screen door put in.
Stale beer is the best fly bair, says
the bulletin. Milk, or milk mixed with
mashed overripe bananas, or one part
of black-strap molasses and three parts
water, or one part brown sugar, make
good bats. The strip mixtures should
be set in the sun q day or so to fer
ment before being used. They should
be put in large, shallow pans and
placed under the traps. Where one
bait attracts many honey bees another
bait should be used.
Put traps in places where the flies
naturally congregate, the sunny side Of
a building out of the wind. Keep bait
containers well filed. This gives
larger catches and avoids the danger
of flies breeding in the bait. Empty
traps regularly. Kill the flies with
hot water.
A sticky fly paper that may be used
in the house is composed of two pounds
of rosin and one pint of castor oil,
heated together until it looks like mo-
lasses and spread with a paint brush
on any kind of paper while the mix
ture is hot.
This bulletin on flies is free upon
application to the department of ag-
riculture, Washington, d. c., and con-
tains other forms of traps for various
purposes. The department also has a
list of bulletins available for distri- |
button on insects that are household |
pests. The list contains:
Remedies and Prevention Against |
Mosquitoes. Farmers Bulletin 444.) |
Some facts About Malaria. (Farm- |
ers' Bulletin 450.)
Sanitary Privy. (Farmers' Bulletin
463.)
Yellow Fever Mosquito. (Farmers'
Bulletin 547.)
Carpet Beetle, or Buffalo Moth"
Farmers Bulletin 626.)
House Centipede. Farmers Bulletin
627)
Cockroaches. Farmers Bulletin
659.)
House Flies. Farmers Bulletin
679.)
Silverfish: an Injurious Household
Insect. Farmers Bulletin 6S1.)
Fleas as Pests to Man and Animals,
With Suggestions for Their Control.
Farmers Bulletin 6S3.)
Hydrochloric-acid Gas Against
Household Insects. Farmers Bulle-
in 699.)
House Ants: Kinds and Methods of
Control. Farmers Bulletin 740)
Migratory Habit of House Fly Lar
rae as Indicating a Favorable Rene
lial Measure. An Account of Progress.
Bulletin 14-)
A Maggot Trap in Practical Use: An
Experiment in House Fly Control Ode {
,artment Bulletin 20)
Fleas. Department Bulletin 24S)