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["Jim Fruth" <jfruth@tds.net>]

Lucky Pittman said, "I don't know your setup, but it might be preferable to 
put the electric fence 3 ft outside the perimeter of your woven wire fence."


   I would if I could but on two sides are neighbor's lawns.  On a third 
side is the highway; my woven wire fence is 3' from the highway, in the 
ditch.  On the fourth side are mature lilacs next to the fence.
   That's why I was wondering.................if the deer get a shock once 
they get inside the fence, would they associate the orchard with pain?

   Right now I have one mystery deer.  It comes in nearly every night, 
wading through the 2' of snow.  It walks around the apple trees without 
nibbling and walks up and down the red raspberry rows nibbling just a bit 
here and there.  Then it leaves.  I never see it; all I see it is the 
tracks.