Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1913 — Catching Flies Pays Well. [ARTICLE]

Catching Flies Pays Well.

Catching fließ is affording a Shreveport (La.) man a profitable and independent living. He sellß them to the city board of health. His name is Bartsch, and his net revenue from the fly industry for the first two days of a recent week was $24.20. When the health board began offering premiums for the flies, dead or alive, Bartsch purchased about 100 traps and placed them in fly-ridden sections of the city. Then he began making Inroads on the health board’s exchequer, and so well did he operate that he bore the market price down from 50 cents to 20 cents a quart, for it is by that measure that the board purchases. Bartsch is still working, and he will work as long as the treasury holds out. He finds fly catching pays.