I read in the archives about tabacco poison for horns. Do anybody use this and for how long will one dip last?
Can you use it over and over or do you have to make fresh solution each time?
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I'm supposing here that you're talking about putting poison inside the horn cases to prevent insects, but once you use it, how in this world are you going to REUSE it? It stays inside the core.
probably an insecticide solution...malathion, sevin, hopefilly not methyl parathion. I would not use anything like this...it definitely would not fall within the label restrictions on any pesticide I am familiar with. If a customer has some type of allergic/toxic reaction, and could prove that you used a restricted pesticide on a specimen in his/her home, there would be hell to pay. Forrest Sue could probably elaborate on this also.
Buy the cheapest chewing tobacco (non flavored) you can find. Get about three packages. The higher the nicotine content the better. Now get a big pot and fill it with water and bring it to a boil. Once the water boils add the tobacco and cover the pot with a lid and turn off the heat. You will have to let this brew stew (do this outside or your whole house is going to stink like a nasty toabacco factory)for about 12 to 24 hours. Don't raise the lid to smell this crap or it'll knock into your next life.
The next day, strain the tobacco chunks out of the pot and pour the highly concentrated nicotine brew in a container with a good tight lid. What you now have is a nicotine rich potion which insects do not like. You can mix this potion with your hidepaste instead of water, pour it into the horns, let it sit in the horn for a couple of minutes, sweeshing (sp?) it around and then pouring it back out.
Insect abhore the smell of nicotine and it is widely used in gardening to repel insects infesting plants. No one is sure on how long exactly the repelling effect will last, estimates range anywhere from a year to several years.
Geo there will be a test on this in Billings. I sure hope you took notes. LMAO
that it is as harmless as that. I could only imagine an insecticide being used. This would not be a good pesticide on tomatoes, due to their susceptibility to the tobacco mosaic virus...it could decimate them!
Evelyn is perfectly correct and thorough as usual. Just keep in mind that the brew really is poisonous and can be absorbed through the skin.
There is very little literature available about the long-term efficacy of the "nicotine dip" however. It is usually used in horticulture, or in agriculture in developing nations.
Just remember as well that applying any kind of poison without a license to do so opens you up to liability, however remote the chance.
By the way, good answer George. (Couldn't resist!)
Why not use Borax!