At 06:57 AM 8/1/2003 -0400, Bill Truesdell wrote:
>I am a bit confused since a very similar procedure was touted by Organic
>Farming and Gardening as a pest control. Grind up the pest and spray it
>on the plants and the pests pick up all sorts of diseases and die. Now I
>learn that I was only making them healthy.

I always thought this worked because they didn't like the smell of dead
creatures like themselves. Something similar takes place in pastures. If
you have sheep and cattle together, the sheep will eat the lush grass that
grows around old cattle manure and the cattle will eat the lush grass
around old sheep manure, but both give wide berth to the grass growing
through manure from their own species.

Mark Payton
Saxtons River, VT

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