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Moved my kitchen cabinets and found this catalog shoved between cabinets and the wall. Early 60s house, US, California

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Why would you want to throw dust on your garden, let alone want it so badly that you need a dedicated machine to do it?

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Dispensing pesticide aka dusting. Like crop dusting

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 6 days ago

Ah, I understand

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Seems like a great way to die horribly fifteen years later. Or if you hate your family maybe.

[–] varyingExpertise@feddit.org 1 points 5 days ago

Well, there are reasons why the average life expectancy went up over the last decades. People back then just didn't give a fuck about a lot of things.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 days ago

To keep the midgets living there from getting eaten by insects or deer.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago

Please. They're called "little people garden dusters."

[–] orbital@infosec.pub 6 points 6 days ago

"Mildew King" sounds like a boss in Dark Souls / Elden Ring / etc.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago

I redid a room recently, and found that this brick wall behind the wood was lined with nazi propaganda from ww2 as insulation. Yes, my house is much older than that.

[–] pigup@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

This old idea of dumping horrible chemicals everywhere is why I can only grow food out of containers. See: https://youtu.be/Hll_BoVK03A

[–] Zip2@feddit.uk 3 points 6 days ago

Is it for small gardens though?

[–] Hatshepsut@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Is that a Jackson & Perkins catalog? Had a rose-crazy gardener of an aunt eons ago and she swore by them. Cool find!

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)