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Here's one formula:
Soak three ounces of chopped garlic in two teaspoons of mineral oil for 24 hours. Slowly add a pint of water dissolved in 1/4 ounce of oil-based soap (such as Palmolive), and stir well. Store in glass to prevent reaction with metals. Use one part to 20 parts of water to begin with, then 1 to 100 thereafter. Apply as a spray to foliage. Also, try evenly dispersing garlic plants throughout your whole garden.
—Chad E. Miebach Chinle, Arizona
Without exception, Country Lore is my husband's and my favorite portion of the magazine and we have put many of the ideas to daily use.
However, one of the letters in issue #128 almost gave my husband a heart attack.
Phil, who has been in the lawn-mower and chain-saw business for 24 years, read the letter advising other readers to "give a few squirts of car-starter fluid" into the air filter of their lawn mowers. He was appalled and described the disastrous results that this action could have.
Car-starter fluid is usually ether, which ignites very rapidly and produces a severe explosion. It also has no lubricating qualities, which two-cycle engines receive from their fuel mixture, and could therefore produce engine seizure.
WD-40 can be used as an acceptable substitute for starter fluid, without posing explosion hazards. Phil has used it for years in this capacity with no harmful side effects.
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