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When pressed hard by fast dogs, Reynard breaks his scent line by running brooks, crossing small rivers diagonally, running stonewalls, and windfall trees, leaping off ledges, skirting thin ice, merging his scent with that of deer, sheep, cattle, or rising flocks of waterfowl, and disguising his smell by rolling in mint beds and manure. These are old tricks handed down by his ancestors. Quick to turn modern conditions to his advantage, the fox of today slows up large hounds by slipping'under barbed wire fences and eleetriiied cattle wires. He has learned that the gasoline fumes on highways and the acrid locomotive odors on railroad tracks vitiate his scent.
Foxes used to spell one another by changing places in hollow' logs during_a chase. Many up-to-date foxes, however, employ for trtls purpose the steel and concrete pipes used in highway culverts. This is their answer to vitaminfortified dog food. „
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Waddling Weeders
Used in Virginia
- ~ A goose in a strawberry patch is becoming a com non signt in Virginia these days.
Bruce Aroian, associate horticulturist at V.P.I., says many growers are turning to geese to take some of the work and expense out of w’eeding strawberries.
Although there are still some questions to be answered—and a goose in a stravvberry patch is not yet on the official recommended
list — teh wadding weeders have some advantages, Aroian says.
For instance some growers have estimated that eight geese in a two-acre field will replace one man working one-half to two-thirds of the time during the growing season. Geese are generally kept in the fields that will be fruiting until the berries begin to ripen, and then are taken out until after the berry harvest.
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