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When the Government banned the use of poison traps eight years ago, Wyoming Wool Grower John Lye began losing about 10% of his sheep to coyotes. When he tried shooting them, they started attacking at night. Says Lye: "They have an uncanny instinct for trouble." Then he hit upon an exotic ploy. Lye got three llamas, those feisty beasts with keen eyesight, fearsome spit, a mean kick-and a passable resemblance to sheep. At first the coyotes were buffaloed. Every time they came down for a hit the llamas would spit, then stomp and slash with their front hooves...
...coyotes began sending a lone decoy to pull the llamas away from the sheep while the rest of the pack went in for the kill. After two months of the range war, the llamas just drifted off by themselves. Since their departure last spring, Lye has lost 32 sheep. Now Lye has a new plan: to raise a baby llama in a herd of sheep so that it will grow up fierce as a llama, but loyal as a lamb. And if that does not work? Says Lye: "I'm about ready to quit sheep growing and start raising...
Though competitors quickly copied his formula, Johnson Products continued to dominate the sales of all hair relaxers, substances that straighten curly hair. But in 1975 the Federal Trade Commission required the company to warn consumers that Ultra Sheen contained lye, which could burn the scalp and cause eye damage. Johnson claims that FTC officials assured him at the time that the other straighteners would also have to print a warning about lye on their packages. Yet for almost two years, while Ultra Sheen's label carried the notice, competitors like Revlon continued to market their "safe," "gentle" and "natural...
...next few years trading one barren farm for another, always behind at the bank. One story especially illuminates the Crews' plight during these years: In 1936 they got a little ahead and were able to buy two cows. Early one morning, Mrs. Crews, cleaning the floor with homemade lye, happened to notice their two cows wandering towards a barrel of lead poisoning used for spraying tobacco plants. She yelled for Ray, but far out in the fields he couldn't hear her, and so she started for the cows herself. Two steps out the front door she heard young Harry...
...have cleaned my crystal ball with lye and Ajax, and am now back in fine form after last week, the worst in Sports Cube prediction history (combined totals: four right, 16 wrong...