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"Miracle Insecticidal Chalk"

	Dear Gardeners,					24 October 1998

	Nan and I seem to have moved this discussion in directions never
intended.
	The product I purchased, named above under subject contains only
	synthetic pyrethroids--the names of which mean little to me.

	The directions is to apply to the ground or window sills, door sills,
	other entrances and exits for ants and roaches to your garden and home.
	No honey bee is likely to be interested or affected in anyway by these
	chalk lines.  Ground dwelling bees still feed on flowers above the
	ground and I've never seen a honey bee choose anything lower than
	clover to feed on.

	Under these circumstances it seems an excellent choice of product for
	controlling and excluding  ANTS  from your home and garden - and with
	the disappearence of "Chlordane" this seems a much safer and easier
	process.

	I'd try it before I'd knock it and will be glad to send the full list
	of ingrediets to anyone who sends me a stamped self addressed
	enevlope to:
		Dr. Michael Barclay
		Really Special Plants & Gardens
		400 Yale Avenue
		Kensington, CA 94708-1109

	Warmly,

	Michael D. Barclay

Michael D. Barclay, Council, California Horticultural Society
opga@wenet.net   Growing 2,000 species fifteen miles from the Golden Gate!
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