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Roach Cookies

These cookies are for feeding your pet roach problem on board your boat DO NOT EAT THESE - THEY ARE POISON

Ingredients:

3 Tbsp Boric Acid powder
1 Tbsp flour
1 Tbsp sugar
Milk

Preparation and Use:

Mix to a paste with milk.
Form into small cookies.
Let dry in the sun on paper.
Put them around out of sight wherever food is found.

You can also buy squirt bottles of boric acid powder. You can use these to 'squirt' wads of dry boric acid powder into the back corners behind drawers, under settees, behind water tanks, around plumbing and other dark corners where roaches may travel.