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Don’t Swat Fly, Eat The Eggs.

Farmer Finds Out That Eggs From Flies Make Fine Table Delicacy and Will Raise them for the Market.

Tidnesta, Pa., July 31.-Instead of following the new fad of swatting flies, Flambert Macy, a farmer of Tidioute township, is swarming them in coops and raising them for their eggs, for he expects to fine large sale as a luxury in food.
The egg contain a high percentage of oil and albumen. He serves them at his own table in three forms-as toasties, as flour cakes, and in the form of cornstarch pudding-and says them both palatable and nutritious.
The coops are of woven wire and cover a space of fifty feet by forty and are ten feet high. In the center of each coop is a tank of water into which the little workers drop their eggs, which the farmer gathers up once a day. There are thousands of them in every setting.
When dried the eggs have a sort of hull which may easily be removed by friction, leaving a product that looks like ice.

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