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["Ginda Fisher" <list@ginda.us>]

<lucky.pittman@murraystate.edu> wrote: 

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Gérald Tremblay 
<gerald@quebecemail.com>wrote:



> I use to make my own labels with alluminum from tin can (beer or pepsi).

>  Cheap and usefull.

>

> I've done that, too - but deer will chew/mangle the thin labels, 
destroying

them,or, at best, making them difficult, if not impossible to read.  Wish

I'd concurrently maintained an updated orchard map on paper or in the

computer.


Interesting. My deer are more fastidious. They eat twigs and apples, but 
haven't yet bothered a tag.

I found the ones I bought: alumboss, still sold by AM Leonard, which seems to 
have two different on-line sites, one with wider selection than the other. 
But they are expensive, currently about $50 for '2 pounds', which is what I 
bought. I estimate it at about 500 tags and the box will probably last the 
rest of my life. So I'm happy with the purchase. (perhaps it was cheaper 10 
(years ago?)

I did write up a text file of what's where at the same time I labeled the 
trees. That will live on my computer.

Ginda