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Outwitting garden intruders.(Contech Scarecrow)(Evaluation)
All kinds of potions and products promise to keep animals out of the garden. Many are speciesspecific, inconvenient to use, and only marginally effective. (See "When Bambi Eats Your Flowers," October 1998.)
Contech Electronics' Scarecrow, $79 plus tax (800 767-8658; www.scatmat.com), works and is easy to use. It's an equal-opportunity deterrent, be the trespasser a hungry deer or your own exuberant Labrador retriever.
The Scarecrow is a motion-activated sprinkler that can detect activity up to 35 feet away within a 100-degree arc. It makes chugga-chugga-shhuu noises as its head turns to deliver a 3-second burst of water. The combination of the spray, the noise, and the motion of the sprinkler head scares off intruders before harm is done.
We installed a Scarecrowin one of our test gardens last summer, where we're normally troubled by hungry deer. It worked well--better than more-costly and complicated devices such as electric fencing and deer netting. Deer tracks in our tilled soil indicated that the deer were there often to investigate. Some snuck up behind the Scarecrow, nibbling that section ...
- Hungry Deer Plaguing Cemetery.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire September 27, 2003 700+ words
(From Aberdeen Press & Journal (UK)) Groups of hungry deer are causing misery for people visiting one of the largest graveyards in Inverness. A growing number of people have reported the...
- Scarecrows protect fields from birds - and black magic.
- Newspaper article from: Jakarta Post May 14, 2009 700+ words
...closely at the scarecrows: If you are lucky...bertuah or sorcerer scarecrow. It is said that...The heads of scarecrows play an important...choose to make the scarecrow's head from dried...in making their scarecrows. Some farmers...flapping cloth on the scarecrow's back, imitating...
- Vanishing scarecrows. (vintners create artistic scarecrows in Switzerland)
- Magazine article from: World and I Tugores, Mathias October 1, 1998 700+ words
...constructed, scarecrows are almost always male. Female scarecrows are few and far...hideous witches. Scarecrow capital Winegrowers...winegrowers, brought scarecrows back to the village...Reserve of the scarecrow) was marked by...
- SCARECROWS.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Ranger Rick September 1, 2000 700+ words
...they started making scarecrows. They stuffed old...Then they put these scarecrow "people" on poles in their fields. Did the scarecrows do a good job of frightening...and fields with goofy scarecrow art. Just see for yourself what's become of scarecrows! SCARECROWS--LOOK...
- Scarecrow great for displaying fruit, holding Halloween candy.(Knight Ridder...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Ward, Carol J.G. October 18, 2001 700+ words
This festive scarecrow looks like he's just come in from...the edges together. This will be the scarecrow's head. To form the nose, cut a...felt. Glue it in the center of the scarecrow's face. Glue on two buttons for eyes...
- Scarecrow great for displaying fruit, holding Halloween candy.
- News wire article from: State (Columbia, SC) October 3, 2001 700+ words
...Byline: Carol J.G. Ward This festive scarecrow looks like he's just come in from the...the edges together. This will be the scarecrow's head. To form the nose, cut a triangle...gold felt. Glue it in the center of the scarecrow's face. Glue on two buttons for eyes...
- Scarecrows on Main: Businesses hope events scare up new customers.
- Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY) October 10, 2006 700+ words
...have come alive with scarecrows. Businesses along...stuffed figures for the Scarecrow Expo, which runs through...Club member, said 45 scarecrows will be featured...can make their own scarecrow for $10 with used...public can purchase scarecrows made by schoolchildren...
- Corny, creative scarecrows.
- Magazine article from: Arts & Activities Johnson, Georgia September 1, 2005 700+ words
...Students discuss a scarecrow's purpose and history...personal experiences with scarecrows. Back in the art room...students finish their scarecrows using personal creativity...personality and create a scarecrow character using a variety...finish dressing the scarecrows and consider the ...
- Scarecrow contest: The Right Stuffed.(FLORIDA WEST)(ON THE SIDE)(Column)
- Newspaper article from: Sarasota Herald Tribune September 30, 2002 700+ words
...new dimension. The Scarecrow Festival will feature...assortment of unusual scarecrows created by residents...free step-by-step scarecrow workshop at Historic...6. Although the scarecrows may be seen on the...information about the Scarecrow Festival and to submit...
- Chronicles of an old garden.(scarecrows in gardening and literature)
- Magazine article from: Kindred Spirits Wagner, Sandy June 22, 2003 700+ words
...have been questioned if he'd set a scarecrow in solemn vigilance over his garden plot...chance for their lives. The old fashioned scarecrow, stuffed with straw and hay became very...by L. Frank Baum in 1900 portrays the scarecrow waiting patiently for morning because...
