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From: reid@Glacier.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: controlling snails
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Date: Wed, 7-Nov-84 22:50:33 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  7 22:50:33 1984
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> Would like some advice on how to keep snails out of the garden
> without the use of poisons.
> I have tried beer, as well as ashes, without satisfactory results.
> Thanks
> Bernd Riechelmann, sdcc12!ux4706 or sdcc12!wa371.

A friend of ours has a pet duck, which keeps his snails in line.
He has often offered to loan out his duck for snail control to anyone who
promised that they didn't use poisons in their gardens.
We just pick them up and throw them over the fence, into the adjoining
creek, where the crayfish eat them.

	Brian Reid
	Stanford