At 08:44 AM 11/4/97 -0500, you wrote:
>your right too edd, perhaps soybean and cottonseed oils,partially
>hydrogenated would have been
>a better way to phrase it.
>
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>> From: Edd Chamberlin <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Crisco and menthol
>> Date: Tuesday, November 04, 1997 12:54 AM
>>
>> WRONG! Crisco is 100% vegetable shortening; Lard is animal fat.
>>
>> Do not use lard.
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 2 Nov 1997 17:16:52 -0500 Walt Barricklow
>> <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>> >Crisco is a brand name for lard.  It is cooking grease, in a can or
>> >tin. It
>> >act to hold things together, at least until it gets warm, then it
>> >becomes
>> >soft, or even will become liquid.
>> >
>> >
>> >----------
>> >> From: Bee1Bob1 <[log in to unmask]>
>> >> To: [log in to unmask]
>> >> Subject: Re: Crisco and menthol
>> >> Date: Sunday, November 02, 1997 2:05 PM
>> >>
>> >> Hi,
>> >>
>> >> I`m a UK beekeeper and I have just discovered Varroa in my hives!
>> >>
>> >> I don`t like using hard chemicals and so the use of natural oils
>> >like
>> >menthol
>> >> to control mites sounds interesting but what is Crisco and what role
>> >does
>> >it
>> >> have in the process? Just a solvent? - are there any others?
>> >>
>> >> Yours
>> >>           Bob
>> >
>Crisco is a vegtable Oil not Animal lard..
>