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["Jim Fruth" <jimfruth@charter.net>]

   Garlands of red beads?  Who would that fool?  Certainly not birds.  Your 
berry beads need to be a close facsimile or the real thing; birds are not 
stupid!

   How to hang the beads???  I started out by buying screw hooks, then 
holding the hook with a pliers - heating the screw end with a blow torch and 
melting in into the hole of the bead.  That's quick but the wind can blow 
them off a branch.
   Next I used a small diameter, dead soft aluminum wire.  Making a proper 
hook and attaching it to the bead can be time-consuming but I did it for the 
cherry trees because I leave the beads on the branches all year and the 
aluminum is soft enough that it expands with the branches as they increase 
their diameter.

Jim Fruth
Brambleberry Fruit Farm
4002 Davis Street
Pequot Lakes, MN  56472
1-218-831-7018 (My Cell)