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  • From: "Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>
  • To: "NAFEX" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [NAFEX] Finding more nuts
  • Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 08:40:52 -0500

If your squirrels are stealing all of your nuts, there is a neat way to trick those dastardly critters into providing some for you that are easy to find. If there are only a few nuts to be had, the squirrels will hide them so you won't find any but, if it is an abundant crop, they'll leave them where you can find them, if you know where to look.
It helps to have a fallen tree (12" in diameter or larger) but lacking that, bring in some (unsplit) cordwood and line them up so as to resemble a (part of) fallen tree.
After the squirrels have filled their cache, they'll bury the rest, one to three at a time, in holes they dig, BUT if you have a fallen tree, or a facsimile thereof, they will stow them tightly under the log further hiding the nuts with fallen leaves. Pull away the leaves and, voila, there are all the nuts to be had just for scooping them up. I also find some nuts beside large rocks or at the base of bushes, always with the nuts covered with leaves. It works here in North Central Minnesota and I'd bet that 'your' squirrels aren't any different from 'mine.'

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Farm
Pequot Lakes, MN 56472
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