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From: klg@george.mc.duke.edu (Kim Greer -- rjj)
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Subject: Re: deer deterrant
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Date: 27 Jan 91 14:21:54 GMT
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In article <1991Jan25.143233.16625@uhura.neoucom.EDU> wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>Our local arboritum had trouble with an exploding deer population
>devoring the young trees.  The solution is decidedly low
>technology.  They hung dozens of trial-size (i.e. like the bars you
>see in airplane lavalotries) bars of Ivory and Life Buoy soap on
>strings from the tree brnaches.

Again, not really high tech, but:

  Another solution that I've been told about, and probably will try in my
garden this year is to get leftover hair from a barber shop and sprinkle it
around the trees, or garden or whatnot.  My barber says he has a number of
people who ask him to save hair for them, and several friends have mentioned
it also.


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Kim L. Greer                       
Duke University Medical Center		 klg@orion.mc.duke.edu
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