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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Donna wrote, "Actually ducks are much better for slug control and don't 
scratch, but they waste too much water to be practical in the kind of severe 
droughts we've been going through."

   I tried (Kaki Campbell [sp.]) ducks in my garden once.  They preferred 
the garden plants to the weeds.  They even ate hot peppers 
(serranos).................and no weeds.  They didn't care for tomato plants 
either.  Needless to say, I didn't allow them in the garden for a very long 
time.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
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