Show INSECT POWDER GROWN HERE americans lost no time in devel industry once the secret WE was discovered in our grandfathers grandfather sl day the so wiled fled persian insect powder corn com rold old nowadays under the name of pyrethrum cost 16 a pound pretty dear for a bug killer the routt was a mystery beyond the fact that it was of a vegetable nature nobody knew what it was t t As a matter martt of fact it came front from ia where its production wa was a very important industry for centuries centuries it hod had been widely used in asiatic countries and the source ot of 5 te material was wa a secret carefully kept 1 eventually the abe secret was revealed by an armenian merchant who trav elbirg through discovered that the insect powder was simply the ground up flower heads of 0 a plant nearly related to our own field dalsy daisy later on attempts were made to introduce the plant in the united states but the seeds refused to sprout this th a as finally ascertained was due to the circumstance that the persons from whom they were bought had bad baked them at the present time we grow crow all out own insect powder in california |