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Show A MAN WHO KNOWS SOME WONDERFUL FACTS REGARDING FLIES In tho October American Magazine nppears a picturo and sketch of A. K. Chapman, a southern California!!, who knows how to rid a wholo community com-munity of files. Following Is nn o tract from tho article about him: "Mr. Chapman Bays that tho bait Is a very important part of fly traps for this special feast must bo mado moro enticing than tho odors from tho kitchen. Ho has found thnt, al though a great variety of foods can bo used successfully tho attractiveness attractive-ness of any bait varies with tho season. sea-son. A food that drew thousands of files at ono tkno of year will not intorcst them In tho least at other times. Fresh fruits In season are always good, but In tho early summer sum-mer tho only really satisfactory bait Is ground meat sprinkled with for- iil maldchydo to keep It fresh. "In his study of tho habits of files M Mr. Chapman has discovered ' ono H characteristic which ho believes not B only has ennblcd tho fly to propagato ( H Its species but also has saved the hu- ''H man raco from extinction by this pest. B Ho has learned that young flics up HJ to tho end of tho two week period tSBl during which they lay no eggs, havo no tasto nor deslro for nny food but BBb tho daintiest nnd freshest they can find; but that at tho end of this po- 1Kb rlcd their taste undergoes a complcto HBb nnd radical change. By a wlso provl- HBl slon of nature, thoy now deslro only ' JHJ tho kind of food that can bo found jHBa In rofuso heaps, decaying matter, or !JJ other places whero Instinct bids them lay their eggs. H "When you bait with stalo fish, . -M says Mr. Chapman you wilt fill your AVH trap with old flics that in all prob- ijfiVfll ability havo laid their full quota ot liflVAl eggs and whoso dnys nro numbered. I'VAI In tho beginning of a campaign a IliVaH number of traps should bo baited this i'flVJ way but aftor you havo got the ad- iliiH vnntago of tho old flics, tho major- 'fH Ity of the traps should bo baited with 'tH tho nicest, freshest food and fruit tH available Thus you wilt bo sure to , H catch tho young flies before tho lay ' Ing period begins." i'lpH |