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game wardens. If the orchardist dresses the deer, the state will 

 take it and pay him for the trouble of dressing. 



Longer open seasons offer some relief, and possibly a very short 

 doe season would drive these animals away. Fencing — if the fence 

 is 8 or 10 feet high and of tight-woven wire — may keep them out, 

 although in most cases where fences have been used, it has been 

 found that the deer get in easily but cannot get out. Deterrent 

 licks have also been tried. After the deer begin to come daily 

 to these licks, either kerosene is poured over the salt, or sulphur 

 is mixed with a small amount of salt. Both these substances are 

 very distasteful to deer and will serve to drive them away from 

 the territory. 



Perhaps we shall find that applications of lime-sulphur will keep 

 the deer from eating the foliage, but the value of this preventive 

 has not yet been demonstrated. 



Orchards may be injured in other ways than those mentioned 

 here, but these will serve to suggest to the orchardist the 

 difficulties against which he must cruard. 



