Cow `perfume' to discourage flies

London - Farmers could soon be using naturally derived perfumes on cows to keep flies at bay, reducing the need for insecticides…

London - Farmers could soon be using naturally derived perfumes on cows to keep flies at bay, reducing the need for insecticides.

New Scientist magazine reported yesterday that scientists at Britain's Institute of Arable Crops Research were working to isolate chemicals that cows naturally secrete or exhale in order to find out which ones make them unattractive to flies.

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