Show INSECT POWDER GROWN HERE lost no time in debef industry once the secret k wac discovered DIc f in our grandfathers day the so called persian powder commonly fold nowadays under the nama of cot ag a pound pretty dear for a the stuff was a mystery beyond the fact that it was of a vegetable nature nobody anew what it was aa a matter of fact it came from where its production waa a very important industry for centuries it had been widely used in asiatic countries and the source of tha material was a secret carefully dept eventually the secret was revealed by an armenian merchant who traveling through discovered that the insect powder wag simply the ground up flower heads of a plant nearly related to our own field daisy I 1 ater on attempts were made to introduce the plant in the united states but the seeds refused to sprout this ai finally ascertained was due to the circumstance that the persons from they were bought had bated them at the present time we grow all our own insect powder in california |