Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1911 — NEW FLY-CATCHING DEVICE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW FLY-CATCHING DEVICE

1 " - I ’’ • . .• Pests of Het Weather Days Argt - Sucked Into Traps and Afterward Killed. W - ' .-i j The limit of nses to which At vacuum apparatus may be put seems: to be boundless. Here Is a plan by which It catches files. A pipe leading' from the vacuum tank is suspended r across the room horizontally with a series of funnels depending from IL

One tunnel can be hung over a table,, for instance, and another over the window sill. As the flies enter the window those that come close to the funnel are sucked up into the pipeabove. For those that escape a bait of bread and molasses is set on the table below the mouth of the second, funnel. When the insects make tori this feast they are whirled up into the opening above as soon as they' come within the radius of suction.: Valves at the top of the funnels close* down when the. vacuum motor Is shut: off and the traps can be removed andi immersed in scalding water to killj the captives.