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...Pests must be killed and plants fed, but the ingredients in pesticides and fertilizers often invite images of chemical warfare. Gardeners have grown cautious about what they use to defend against bugs. Jerry Baker, author of The Impatient Gardener, advises spraying the lawn with a mixture of Listerine, ammonia, chewing-tobacco juice and dish washing liquid. Others have discovered beer for immobilizing slugs, and human hair to discourage squirrels...
...from the farmer's point of view, well- nigh perfect. Diesel-fuel prices have dropped so far this year by anywhere from 23 cents to 30 cents per gal., to as low as 50 cents. Costs are expected to come down for the farmer's favorite fertilizer, anhydrous ammonia, to $165 per ton from last year...
Other conclusions from Voyager's findings, according to Project Scientist Edward Stone: Uranus has a core consisting of rock and liquid, is covered by a deep ocean of water laced with dissolved ammonia, and is wrapped in a 5,000- mile-thick atmosphere consisting largely of hydrogen, with 10% to 16% helium and a scattering of methane and other gases...
...expanded. By studying the spectra of light emitted from molecules broken down in the gaseous coma, scientists have estimated that a comet's nucleus consists of two-thirds water, one-fifth dust (particles averaging one-thousandth the width of a pinhead) and the rest a mixture of methane, ammonia, carbon dioxide and trace elements...
...through a middleman for cash. In one of the biggest of these accords, Occidental Petroleum and the Soviet Union have a 20-year, $20 billion agreement that calls, in part, for the annual exchange of 1 million tons of American superphosphoric acid fertilizer for 4 million tons of Soviet ammonia, urea and potash...