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From: wtm@uhura.neoucom.EDU (Bill Mayhew)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: deer deterrant
Summary: Very, very simple non electronic effective deterent
Message-ID: <1991Jan25.143233.16625@uhura.neoucom.EDU>
Date: 25 Jan 91 14:32:33 GMT
References: <1991Jan24.174620.3984@sdl.scs.com>
Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Our local arboritum had trouble with an exploding deer population
devoring the young trees.  The solution is decidedly low
technology.  They hung dozens of trial-size (i.e. like the bars you
see in airplane lavalotries) bars of Ivory and Life Buoy soap on
strings from the tree brnaches.  The deer were attracted by the
sweet smell of the soap, took a nibble or two and Y-u-c-k!!  Boy
these trees sure taste awful!  The soap, of course, has no long
term deleterious physiological effect on the deer.

To prolong the life of the soap bars, it is best to leave them
wrapped up in the paper that they come with.  Attachemnt is
facilitated by drilling a hole in the middle of the soap cake to
provide a study way to attach the string.

==Bill==
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