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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (59158)2/28/2001 3:46:26 AM
From: Ish  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 71178
 
<<But ticks really are icky, aren't they? Hate those things, and they seem to love me. My papa ate a teaspoon of something (I forget, it's something you normally put on the garden to make it grow), every day and swore it kept them away. >>

That might be sulphur. It's used to make soil more acid. Drug stores, at one time, sold capsules of sulphur and taking one a day was supposed to keep the ticks and mosquitoes off. It might not have been real healthy because they don't sell them anymore. Comments Lather?