Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1912 — Sure-Death Fly Poison. [ARTICLE]

Sure-Death Fly Poison.

I read somewhere recently that formaldehyde and water constitute _a good fly poison, and hasten to add my testimony to the many volumes already written on this important subject The scheme will work, under proper conditions. Purchase 5 cents worth (or more, If you have many flies) of formaldehyde at any drug store, and* put two or three" drops In a saucer of water. Then —and this is extremely im-portant—-catch a fly and bold him by the left hipd leg with his head immersed in the mixture for three-quar-ters of an hour. When removed be - wil be quite dead. Repent the operation until all the flies have disappeared.- Exchange, -