[AT] Thanksgiving Day tractor chores+trees

[Roy Morgan]

On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Indiana Robinson wrote:
> Back when I was still grain farming I used Anhydrous ammonia to get
> rid of groundhogs.

Farmer,

Pardon my being not familiar:  Is anhydrous ammonia a kind of powder  
or granular dry stuff?  Sounds like it got mixed with some water as   
you dosed the hole.

Seems like whatever it is, a dose of it down each ground hog hole  
would  make a very unfriendly atmosphere in the burrow.  I remember  
from when I was a kid a smoke bomb, some burlap bags and a shovel for  
the dirt being used to deal with ground hogs.  Maybe the smoke bomb  
made sulfurous smoke that created sulfuric acid in the lungs of the  
hapless ground hogs.  I think Geneva conventions or something outlawed  
that kind of thing in warfare among people.  No doubt OSHA had done  
away with those smoke bombs, too.  As with the purple poison-laced  
granular sugar you could get to beat the flies in the barn.

>  Ground hogs are no longer a problem here, I haven't seen one for
> years. Coyotes ate all of them...

No doubt you are inclined to be very helpful, but please do not send  
any Coyotes here for us to use on the ground hogs.  heheh.  (we have  
sheep)

  Roy

Roy Morgan
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529 Cobb St.
Groton NY, 13073