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Re: Getting rid of ants

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From: Pat Boren
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 1994 17:39
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jangus@skyld.grendel.com wrote:

>  added method use Boric acid powder.
>
>  It used to be sold for an eyewash, but someone found that you could go
>  blind if you pounded the entire box into your eyes so it's off the market
>  as such. However, it is still available in bright yellow squeeze bottles
>  under the name of Roach-proof and Oatmeal size cans as Roach-Away. Just
>  poof a trail of powder as a baricade. They (the ants and roaches too) go
>  away after a day or so.

This is also what a veterinarian recommended to get rid of fleas:
either call Fleabusters and pay oodles of money, or do it yourself
with Roach-Pruf. (Boric acid is Fleabusters' secret weapon.)

-- 
     Pat(ricia) Boren
     pboren@rand.org
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From: pboren@pnut.rand.org (Pat Boren)
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Subject: Re: Getting rid of ants
Date: 10 Aug 1994 10:39:50 -0700
Organization: RAND, Santa Monica CA
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