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the orchard i work for hangs the most heavily perfumeed soap that can be found
on young apple and plum trees.
to the best of my knoledge it is more effective in warm weather than in
below 32°F. the caviat is the soap is very apealing to mice, to not let the 
soap 
that disolves run down the main stem.

alternatly if  deer are a pest to your crops you may be able to shoot them.

nathan beauregard
5 bordering 4 MA


Quoting Hélène Dessureault <interverbis@videotron.ca>:

> I have always had a lot of frustrations over deers eating the terminal
> growth of my precious one and two years old grafted apple trees. Very
> upsetting at times. They eat the main branch and it develops into side
> branching. I choose the best side branch and eliminate the others. When the
> chosen branch grows, here comes a munching deer and back to square one.
> This year we are having an exceptional season for young trees, the rain
> comes as needed, the growth is quite good. I am training the trees that have
> to be retrained after many years of deer munching.
> High fences are out of the questions...
> I am experimenting with a radio. I have purchased a cheap portable emergency
> radio working on 2 "AA" bateries, as the deers enter the far end of the
> valley where it is too far for running electricity (at least for a trial).
> The batteries last for a week and a half to two weeks, when turned on in the
> evening and turned off early morning. Here, I can buy 4 "AA" for $1,79CA, so
> this radio is quite cheap to operate, really.
> After three weeks, I can report that it seems to work.
> I tried moving the radio closer to the house (as it would be easier to turn
> on and off), but the deer managed that night to sneak a few bites off a
> little tree located close to the woods on the far end where I found deer
> tracks in the morning, so now I know that I have to put in the efforts if I
> want this system to work.
> I then set back the radio half way in the valley along the wood edges.
> Every night, I go down the valley to turn on the radio, and every morning, I
> go down the valley to turn off the radio. The radio is kept in a five gallon
> pale turned sideways to protect it from rain and it keeps the sound away
> from the house so that we don't have to listen to this  commercial station
> that I have chosen with various wailing disjockeys introducing the next hip
> hop songs and what not.
> All I can report is that deers are not yet used to munching apple trees to
> the sound of the latest....
> So far so good. The radio seems a solution for keeping deers away....
> I had heard of a beekeeper protecting his bees from the bears one year with
> a radio. Meanwhile other beekeepers where out there with their guns and many
> sleepless nights.
> I'll report on the results at the end of the season.
> Hélène, zone 3-4
> 
>  Original Message -----
> From: "tanis grif" <tanisgrif@yahoo.com>
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Friday, June 23, 2006 8:01 PM
> Subject: [NAFEX] other wildlife-feeding
> 
> 
> > Pear branches heavy w/ fruit dipped to w/in reach of deer recently.  The
> only
> > cultivar stripped of leaves AND small green fruitlets was 'Patten'.  Just
> passing
> > this along in case deer actually have a preference for 'Patten', compared
> to those
> > more closely related to 'Bartlett'.  (Maybe just THESE deer prefer it?
> Maybe the
> > damage was done on a bet?  I'll never figure out deer.)
> >
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