On 1/23/11 2:29 AM, jeanette wrote:
So people who like the fruit fight the cochineal and
farmers who do not like the cacti fight the plants!!!
Anybody harvesting the cochineal?
When I was in Hawaii in the sixties, I was told that some
hot-shot in the agriculture department noticed that all the
pastures were infested with panini -- the local variety of
prickly pear -- and without consulting any locals imported a
noxious pest to clean up the pastures.
Only to discover that the prickly pear *was* the pasture;
the farmers had been burning off the spines so the cows
could eat them.
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