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Re: No Tomatoes in 1998?

> > 
> > There is concern that many people will ignore the rulings and plant
> > tomatoes using saved seed or left-over seed from past years.  Because of
> > this, the U.S.D.A. has received several million in federal funding to
> > train dogs to recognize the odor of tomato plants. 
> 
>  Will those tomato sniffing hounds also be able to detect weeds in our
> gardens?  That will make gardening tough!

Wouldn't it be a lot more efficient to train those dogs to just
sniff out home gardeners? After all they are the ones who are
instrumental in spreading the disease. And how hard would it be
to smell a gardener? - a whiff of blood and bone, a bouquet of compost,
a tang of old boots with a pungent overlay of eternal optimism? 


 Betty-Ann Kelly 

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Betty-Ann Kelly
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