PROTECTION AGAINST FLIES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11871, 24 January 1902, Page 6

PROTECTION AGAINST FLIES.

TO THE KDITOR. —The following, which appeared' Ja . i tho Daily Mail (Homo newspaper) may bo of • , 'I interest:—"No fly nor winged insect of any a .kind will alight on -a spot to. which tho >5 following simple and harmless mixture has S been, applied: —One ounce of oil of penny. ' % royal, added to one pint of olive or rape oil . .3 well shaken, and applied nightly, will protect 1 '3 any animal from flies for a whole day. t Tfc» ! C i! I i ■writer had used this successfully 'in the' 4 Canadian bush, whero mosquitoes "and simi- c •% lar posts, unless prevented, attack so per- ■ 3 fiistently that, work is almost impossible*! 1 Oil of pennyroyal, although quite harmless] ¥ to animals, is so fatal to insect life that if*. I bottle containing it is held, under' a gnat : H : M-;i or fly, the insect will drop into it. When -J I applying the mixture to the face of an ani- !; ■' mal, care should bo taken, not to let it- rua ! into tho eyes."—l am, etc., - James MtrtaMlpH- '■ •:fe:::■V*■ .■<■■■ : :^SS'f Bl;