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Show Artificial Snakes Are Making Good Scarecrows There is a horticulturist in Beloit, Wis., who used artificial snakes as scarecrows with good effect during the growing season. Frank Clianey raises berries and grapes in his orchard, liirds ravished his plants and trees until he manufactured a horrible looking look-ing reptile which he painted in gaudy colors and coiled about a bush that was being attacked by the visitors. The birds were frightened away and he chopped up 'an entire section of rubber hose into many short pieces which lie painted as lie did the first and scattered them about his fields. The result is that he harvested a very good crop of fruit without the usual interference or help from his bird friends. |