I am writing a newsletter article about the blue shop towel (BST) delivery
of menthol as a fall treatment for tracheal mites.  Allen Dick's Beekeeper's
Diary features a recipe to prepare 60 rolls of 55 sheets each to treat 3,300
hives once or 1,650 hives twice.
http://www.honeybeeworld.com/diary/2001/diary032001.htm
That's overkill for my audience.  I can roughly translate Allen's recipe to
a single pound of Crisco vegetable oil to a pound of menthol crystals to
soak a single roll of BSTs.  I would be inclined to cut the roll of BSTs in
half and divide the Crisco/menthol between the two half-rolls.  I am not
altogether comfortable with my conversions, especially to publish in a
newsletter.  I have googled to no avail to find an authorative recipe for a
small batch of mentholated BSTs.  Has anyone a recipe of pointer to one that
is tested and true?

Thanks in advance,
Aaron Morris

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