Re: Startling statistic

**Duane Campbell d*@juno.com**

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:54:39 +0000 "Nancy Szerlag"
<szerlag@earthlink.net> writes:

> Case in point, Sluggo, also sold by Schultz under the name Slug and 
> Snail
> Bait. This environmentally friendly slug bait has been on the market 
> for
> several years and is readily available.

Not only that, but I am told it is pretty effective. So I decided to try
some. Went to a garden store and found a bottle for about twelve bucks.
Read the label, which told me that it was a one percent solution of iron
phosphate. Now, iron phosphate is not a particularly exotic chemical
compound, sorta akin to rust. And the thought of paying twelve bucks for
a one percent solution stuck in my craw. I don't use the term "rip off"
very often, but $12.00 for a bottle of weak rusty water certainly tempts
me to. 

So I still don't know whether it works. If I'm gonna pay twelve bucks for
a pesticide, I want the active ingredient to have at least ten syllables.

D

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