On 2019-07-22 6:28 a.m., Gary wrote:
> Janet wrote:

>> Then deer and fowl would eat and trample the unprotected seedlings as
>> soon as they appeared above ground; there would never be a mature crop
>> of corn.
>
> Theory sounds good but just not true.
>
>> Animals have no concept of the most basic concept of crop
>> farming/gardening and neither do you.
>
> I've had many small gardens in the past and all flourished
> without fencing, netting, cropping, etc. Isn't it amazing how all
> around the world small farms and huge ones plant acres and acres
> of various vegetables without all that. Seasonal weather
> permitting, they all grow bumper crops and make a living doing
> so. Farmers worldwide feed everyone else with none of that.




Farmer also hunt the herbivores. They expect that they will lose a
portion of their crop to deer, so they take steps to keep the deer away.
We have a lot of deer around here and farmers count on losing a
percentage of their crop to them. People with small gardens cannot
afford to lose much. Most of the people I know who have vegetable
gardens fence them to keep the deer out. Farmer John who owns the
nursery behind us has a number of friends and relatives who hunt on his
property.