ELECTROCUTING INSECTS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXIX, Issue 10957, 23 December 1911, Page 3 (Supplement)

ELECTROCUTING INSECTS.

Electricity as an agency to destroy tlvs codlin moth is described in the Electrical Review and Western Electrician (Chicago) as the latest innovation of modern apple-orcharding in the Spokane valley, wliere W. M. Frost, inventor of the device, and J. C. Lawrence, a practical grower'of Spokane, recently made a demonstration. We read: . - /

"The apparatus consists of a.storage battery to operate incandescent lamps of 6-caridle power in globes, * which: are netted-with fine steel wires." Attracted by the bright light in the tree.to which the . globe ':. is strung, the moth flies against'the network,.completes_tbe trie circuit, and is instantly,killed^ Ahe' -body dropping'intb a receptacle beneath the globe, Mr Frost thinks'that one apparatus to ah acre of trees wijl keep the moths under control; thus eliminating spraying and saying many dollars for equipment and fluid. In central .Ration service is .extended ;to orchard tracts, as they are in the Spokane Valley, the expense of batteries may ba saved by making direct connection and using the commercial current. The cost of covering the globes with wire nets is a small item."