Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 181, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1911 — Frogs and Toads Eat Flies [ARTICLE]

Frogs and Toads Eat Flies

Chicagoans Commend Greeley, Colo., Form to Raise Pest Destroyers— * Idea Is Good One.

Chicago—Chicago is Interested in a new fly ridding device. The new scheme Which has for its basis the utilization of the insatiate appetite of frogs and toads for the swarming summer pests originated In Greeley, Colo. It is there, according .to a dispatch, that a man has a toad farm which is absolutely “flyless.” “Hundreds of toads and frogs on this unique farm," says the dispatch, "keep the place free from flies." “Frogs and toads, I have found,” Keeper Cy De Vry of the Lincoln park zoo said, “are the great fly eaters In the world. If Chicago had enough of them the flies would soon disappear. We have one big frog out here called

Jumbo. He is from Florida and we feed, him nothing but flies. We can’t give him enough, and I am thinking ol turning him out and maybe he’ll rid the park of flies attracted by the other animals.”

F. J. Burns, 340 West South Water street, who handles hundreds of frogs for live fishing bait, felt sure the idea would be a good one here. "We have few teads here, but hun-i dreds of frogs,” he said, “and toj wotch them devour flies is a marvel My little boy started to count how many disappeared in the mouths off a healthy collection of the animals! one day and at last became ben wildered in his mathematics. They’ will eat all they can get near. We! have very few files bothering nsi here."