Re: would this fly in the US?

**"* L* <t*@earthlink.net>**

GWL: Just remember that vegetarian urine is not useful as it lacks the 
ketones that frighten the animals--so only meat-eaters need apply. Perhaps 
that is why male urine is supposed to me more threatening because it 
contains hormone residues frightening to many animals? P.L.
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From: "Catriona Tudor Erler" <catriona@catrionatudorerler.com>
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>A girlfriend in Bethesda, Maryland used to collect her own pee every
> morning to sprinkle around the border of her vegetable garden in an
> attempt to keep deer and rabbits away.  Then she learned that male pee
> is more efficacious, so she convinced her husband to do his duty for
> her.  A neighbor in Vienna, Virginia also used to send her husband out
> to pee around the periphery of their property to discourage deer, and
> male guests were encouraged to follow his lead.  Never underestimate the
> lengths an avid gardener will go to keep deer out of the beds.
>    Catriona
>
> Miranda Smith wrote:
>> Ah, your article reminds me of my idealistic youth...Back in the very 
>> early
>> 70s, when I was teaching at a community center for low-income immigrants 
>> in
>> Quebec, one spring brought nothing but rain. Day after day of rain, 
>> leaching
>> every bit of nitrogen and potassium out of our thin and meager soil. 
>> Being a
>> farm kid, I knew the best remedy. So I set up a screen in the back of the
>> classroom and placed a bucket there. In my pigeon French and with the 
>> help
>> of various translators into the other languages in the class, I explained
>> the purpose of the bucket. No one was the least offended...this was an
>> immigrant population, and the scheme made sense to everyone there. We 
>> took
>> turns peeing, dutifully diluted the urine, and the class queued up to 
>> water
>> their plots with it.
>>
>> The following class session, as instructed, students brought in their own
>> supplies. And within a few days, the plants perked up, despite the 
>> incessant
>> rain, and the class had learned an important remedy for such a spring.
>>
>> The other teacher and I were feeling cheerfully competent about having
>> averted a potential disaster and saving the plants. But then, an old 
>> fellow
>> who obviously hadn't understood everything I thought I'd explained, 
>> brought
>> in several gallons of very watery, very stinky poop. I didn't notice what 
>> he
>> had until he poured it out on his plot. The minute he did, every mosquito 
>> in
>> Southern Quebec descended on us. The class fled in absolute horror, and I
>> learned a valuable lesson: teach the value of urine as a fertilizer ONLY 
>> to
>> people who share your language.
>>
>>  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8357134.stm
>>
>>>
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