Show A fly town san vicente mexico Bl exico Is a community of fly catchers it lies in the sierra madre madra mountains and its industry consists in catching flies files tor for a european market where compressed fly cakes are used us its bird food the mexicans ins harvest their crop on A marsh which ch breeds millions of black flies files somewhat larger than the iha common house fly during the season the leons peons go 90 among the swarms 0 of insects with nets each catch is emptied into a base bae and at the end of the dy day the baks bags are emptied into a box which is also a press A cover is placed on it and pressed down and weighted with heavy after 24 hours houra tile the contents are into a layer tina this Is cut into six lach inch cubes and dried in tho the BUM bull and Is then ready for or export A special tariff on the importation of these there cakes la Is levied by germany where most of them go tb san vincents vincente almost kyes on this ahta unique industry Indu technical world |