Show livestock find comfort in brushoff brush off fly traps farm animals soon learn to make frequent use of a device for brushing off and trapping horn flies that are such a pest to livestock in summer it is a structure that fly pestered animals pass through leaving their tormentors tor mentors behind in traps to be destroyed the framework of the cage is a structure 7 feet wide 6 feet high and 10 feet long with a fly tight roof canvas flaps within the cage brush flies off animals walking through the device is usually set up at some strategic spot through which the animals must pass several times a day in a lane to the pasture in the entry to a dairy barn or on the way to the water tank or pond livestock soon learn to make for the brusher offer when flies torment them any handy man can make such a trap at small expense with the aid of plans and illustrations that the bureau of entomology and plant quarantine washington D C offers to send in response to a post card request |