FLY PAPER.
Reading edition
Sticky Fly Paper.
Common Rosin 4 ounces
Caster Oil 4 ”
Mix and heat to nearly boiling point until the rosin is completely dissolved. Spread it out quite thin on some non-porous paper (Fools-cap or manila will do), keeping it back from the edges a half inch or more, fold facing until wanted, then pull apart.
Sticky Fly Paper No. 2.
Rosin 4½ ounces
Lard oil 16 ”
Proceed as in No. 1.
Poison Fly Paper.
Boiling water 16 ounces
Sugar, Common 1½ ”
Chloride of cobalt 6 drachms
Dissolve the sugar and cobalt in the hot water, soak some porous paper in the solution, it is ready for use.