Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-16 | Page 7 | Electrocuting Insects

ELECTROCUTING INSECTS. Electricity as an ngent to destroy Ibc coddling moth is described in the Electrical Reviow and Western Electrician Elec-trician (Chicago) as the latest Innovation Inno-vation of modern npplo orcharding In the Spokane valley, where W. M. Frost, Inventor of the dovlce. and J C Lawrence, a practical grower of Spokano recently made a demonstration demonstra-tion We read- . "Th apparatus' consists of a stor-aco stor-aco battery to operate Incandescent lambs of slx-cnndlopower in globes, which are netted with fine steel wires Attracted by the bright light in tho tree, to which tho globe Is strung, tho moth files ncalnlt tho network, completes com-pletes tho electric cljcult and Is instantly in-stantly killed, tne body dropping Into a receptacle beneath are globo. Frost thinkB that one apparatus to tho arro of trees will koep Uo moths under control, thus, eliminating spraying and saving many dollars for equipment and ruid If central station service Is extended ex-tended to the orchard tracts, as they are In tho Spokane valloy, the expense ex-pense of batteries may bo saed by making a direct connection and using the commercial', current. The cost, of coveringhe globes with, wire nets is a small Item." ff