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From: mike@amdcad.UUCP (Mike Parker)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Problem with Moles/Voles
Message-ID: <11748@amdcad.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-May-86 15:59:40 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 21 15:59:40 1986
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In article <763@mhuxl.UUCP> smh@mhuxl.UUCP (henning) writes:
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>From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA mhuxl!smh
>
>>    The best mole trap is called a cat.  Killing rodents is the thing
>> that cats were designed to do in the first place. 
>
>I have a dozen cats in my yard and they have driven the voles into
>tunnels in the lawn which are a real problem.  I have no results
>from the cats and am trying the juicy fruit gum.


So I was reading my first copy of "Family Handyman" the other day, it's
not a very good magazine, it contained some advice that I felt was just
plain wrong, but.....

The was an advertisement for ORTHO Sevin pesticide, thinly disguised as
an advice column. In answer to a question about moles, they said that
moles live on grubs ( little white things you'll find an inch or so 
underground ) and that if Sevin was sprayed on the lawn to kill the grubs,
then the moles would leave in search of happier hunting grounds.

Of course, I think you said something about avoiding things dangerous to
children, and a whole yard full of pesticide isn't exactly a great playground.

Mike

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