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[NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?

From: "Thetes_Mark_Straka" <ling.mark@msa.hinet.net>
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Subject: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:37:02 -0700

I just saw a "prowler owl" with a four-foot wingspan to mount on a 1/2" pole to scare off bird pests (on eBay: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4314418476&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AMT%3A1) I was wondering if anyone has used this or something like this, and of course, how effective it is. [By the way, what's the opposite of "decoy?"]

I'm trying to read Fred Brison's Pecan Culture, but I'm having trouble getting through Chapter Two. It is laced with vocabulary like: pericycle, acropetal, xylem, parenchyma, schlerenchyma, medullary ray tissue, abscission, sessile flowers, bract, apical dominance, perianth, peduncle, and I could go on. I am in bad need of some reference work that will get me up to speed (hopefully illustrated!) and I'm soliciting recommendations right now. Thank you all very much.

I'm a rank beginning pecan orchardist.

Mark Straka

[NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?, Thetes_Mark_Straka, 07/26/2004
- Re: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?, Lucky Pittman, 07/27/2004
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- Re: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?, philip sauber, 07/26/2004
  - Re: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?, Thomas Olenio, 07/27/2004
- RE: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?, Teghtmeyer, Suzanne R, 07/27/2004
- [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?, Thetes_Mark_Straka, 07/28/2004
  - Re: [NAFEX] Scare Tactics, Thomas Olenio, 07/28/2004
- [NAFEX] Scare Tactics and a Reference Book - Recommendations?, Ned and Faye Rahn, 07/30/2004