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["Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>]

I visited Prof. Meader (he never actually got a doctorate, though he should
have been given one for his accomplishments) in 1994 and he told me (and
showed me) that he used fishing line and that it gave good results.  
Deer pressure isn't quite so heavy here, so I can use egg spray with good
results.  6 eggs in a blender, with water.  Blend.  Put in 3 gallon sprayer
and fill the rest of the way with water.  Lasts up to 6 weeks here, or when
new shoots get 6 inches beyond the sprayed areas. Humans can't see or smell
the stuff, but egg has a sulfur compound in it that is close enough to the
deer alarm scent that they won't eat anything with it on.  And if feeding
pressure isn't really intense, they will avoid sprayed areas altogether.
-Lon Rombough
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>From: "Gordon C. Nofs" <gcnofs@hotmail.com>
>To: nafex@egroups.com
>Subject: Re: [nafex] Deer Damage
>Date: Fri, Jun 2, 2000, 8:09 AM
>

>I had this published in one of the recent issues of Nafex, Just look thru 
>your capies. and of real experiences. Dr. Meader used fine sewing thread I 
>have since heard.
>     Gordon C. Nofs
>
>
>*****I have had luck lately though in protecting plantings within smaller 
>areas,
>new apple trees and garden plots, for example, by surrounding them with
>monofilament fishing line, two or three strands, strung tautly between
>four-foot posts. They apparently do not like the feeling of something
>substantive touching them but that they cannot see.
>
>After so many failed attempts at discouraging them, I'm way past expecting
>long-term victory with this method but in almost twelve months now I've only
>had two intrusions. I lost a young apple tree when one apparently stuck her
>head through a three foot space between strands. And one got into the garden
>one night apparently through a narrow opening I had left in the fish line 
>for
>my ease of entry. Ate all the new growth off twenty-some roses. Times that
>try men's souls.
>
>Jack
>
>
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