The fly-killer is hung up by a screw-eye placed in the end of the handle.
Fig. 48.—An Ash-sifter.
With the fly-killer a person can strike at a fly with almost a certainty of killing it. As the screen-wire is not easily seen by the fly, and the mesh allows the air to pass through, there is nothing to alarm him.
These little things are quickly made, and when you show your customer how effective they are, you will find no trouble in disposing of them.
An Ash-sifter that is dust-proof and very satisfactory is shown in [Fig. 48]. It is made out of a packing-case about three feet long, eighteen inches wide, and twenty-four inches deep.
Set the box upon two-by-four stilts in the shed or yard (braced as shown in the illustration), in such a position that the bottom of the box will be on a level with the top of the alley ash-box. Then cut an opening through the shed wall and end of the box, as shown at AB, for the removal of ashes. Two strips are nailed to the sides of the box (seven inches below the top) for tracks for the sifter to run upon, and below this, at C, a board slide is placed to dump the ashes, which shake through the sifter, out of the opening in the end of the box into the ash-box. Nail one half of the cover to the top of the box and hinge the other half to it.