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["Mark & Helen Angermayer" <hangermayer@isp.com>]

Hi Charlie/Hans,

I was fortunate to visit a pecan orchard last fall.  I was told one squirrel
will eat 50 lbs. of nuts per year.  They were hunting them with a shotgun
and by November they had shot over 100.   At $1.50 per lb. wholesale that
$7500 worth of nuts.

Mark

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Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 1:35 PM
Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Aronia + Castanea


> a chestnut with soft burrs would never be eaten by humans, at least not if
it
> were grown in new england.  Squirrels would get every chestnut.  I don't
even
> know how squirrels survive, they are so stupid to start harvesting pecans
> long before the meat really fills.
>
> In the south, pecan orchards are kept way away from other woods so the
> squirrels would have to cover a lot of open ground to get to the pecans.
>
> There's reasons sometimes things have to be the way they are - all the
time I
> see grass here and there come up albino - a shell-less oyster might be
handy
> because it wouldn't require shucking but the oyster wouldn't do well
without a
> shell .   You gotta have the meanest burrs on chestnuts.
> Charlie Paradise, Massachusetts
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