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Nice color in those beans. I'm quite surprised to see buck pics on your prop.. Other years, you had a lot of doe- fawns. We had all doe and fawns other years. Something has changed, to where we're seeing more bucks this year here.

I think that is a wonderful idea. Maybe have a $5 fee to make it legal. Now, officially, as the state defines hunting, the mentor is hunting, even though they don't support a weapon,as in this case so a license is in order.

I 'm seeing some nice ones, That in itself can spark the fire. I took a trip west of Cleveland Ohio over the weekend on Rt 2. It was approching 8 pm. and the bucks were sure showing in the bean fields. I saw some beauties. That lit the fire and now the fuel is flowing, LOL.

Your observations are correct. Bee Colony numbers at at an extreme low in the northern climate. Last winter took a toll on many colonies. A longer than normal cold period existed without a warm up causing the honey bee no flight time. High waste levels in their bodies became toxic. Some beekeepers brought a few hives into a warmer area to allow flight time. I didn't have the luxury to do so, and suffered dearly. Swarming, the process of divided the colony, is way down this season. An excellent honey flow this spring and late summer for those colonies, that still exist. Only can hope for nice brakes, this winter, so colony number may increase. Beekeepers that transport colonies into warmer winter climates,still continue, but have to fight mite and American Foul Brood. Sudden Colony Collapse still has no cure, but we now know what causes it thanks to Cornell research.

We have rabbits up the yang you. My legumes are on their favorites list and I like to give them a personal invite, LOL.

Nice to see some rabbit pics!

Temp wise , yes. Wet here. Water laying in the furrows of the hay fields. Just like last year. Only had 2 set of 3 days dry so far to make dry hay. Uneven fields of corn, acreage of drown out. Soybeans are yellowing. My pumpkins will be disc up and planting to radish, if I could get in the fields. Crop insurance will surly be used in this area.

Deer season coming folks, LOL. Just taking a little longer this year.

Some refer to fletching the hide when you remove the fat and meat down to the skin. I suppose this is true, and maybe when I said flech the hide, I should of said final fletching. I like my skins thinner and it easier to do while the hide is plyable. After the hide is final rinsed, you can apply a liquid tanning solution. A quart will do 2 - 3 deer hides. Let it sit 24 hours and rinse it out well with soapy water. When the hide dries, brake (work, stretch) the hide to make it plyable.

Harvested 4 coon last year. Have had another 5 hit on the road this year. I like to thin them out, and still many more fill in. I've heard way to many, while turkey hunting also. I'm trapping this year, in hope to reduce numbers even more. We're just loaded. I'm sighting turkey poults here daily now. I was worried for a while, like others seeing hens with 0 poults. Their starting to show with very late hatched chicks. Can't see them with my naked eye. Video brings them in nicely.

Feral Hog Look for these tracks.

Leaving the hair on, this is what I do. Remove all the fat and left over meat off the hide. Use non iodine salt to completely cover the hide for 3 days. Spray off the salt. let drain for 30 minutes. I pickle mine in citric acid, but alum works just as well. Use 1 lb alum, 2 lbs of salt adding to 1 gallon of heated water. Once desolved, add mixture to 3 gallons of water mixing well. Soak the hide for at least 4 days to a week. Make sure to mix the hide and solution a couple times a day. I hold my hides down with bowling balls in shopping bags. The hide must be completely covered with the solution. The hie will turn white when done. If citric acid is used, a baking soda solution must be used to neutralize the acid. Use plenty of water on the rinsing process. Now your ready to fletch the hide. I use an Alaska style scraper on a fletching board. This is the toughest process,and hours of hard work. I stretch my hides out on a cardboard plywood backer for 24 hours. I feel this speeds up the drying process of the hide, but be sure to remove the cardboard after this period. Once dry, scrape the hide to the desired softness. I'll rub neadsfoot oil into them to make them baby bottom soft.

So is the rest of North America, LOL.

Good luck on your future education. Some great hunting on the Iroquois Wildlife Refuge, maybe 20 minutes up the thurway from Buffalo.

clock. We really need one! What are we running, about 93 days till October 1st......... Yahoo! I really can't wait to bow hunt!

Have a great days guys and enjoy.

Send some our way, LOL.

Some really great ideas here! I plant common wheat and oats and try to get in a least 4 acres. Add a couple hundred pounds of fert. pre acre before planting. Pretty inexpensive to weight out the benefits. The oats serves as good browse up to a hard freeze. Not uncommon to count 14 to 21 deer in the oats some evenings. The wheat serves right into December until browsed down. Wheat also grows early in Spring for good food source. I recover cost buy combining the wheat, baling the straw and selling. Funny, I just realized I have a great thing going on here, LOL.

Baling hay Saturday. A big hen stepped into the field out of a hedge row after grasshoppers. I could see the ground moving inside the hedgerow but the poults never came out. I got quite close to her with the tractor before she walked back into cover. That surprised me.

Staged!

Welters call them groundhog radish. I plant 7 - 8 lb to the acre. Does the ground a lot of benefit as well as the deer.

I just can't get field corn planted, so I have to turn to other forms of carbs.. I like my Daikon Radish. Always get them at Welters Seed & Honey Co. I'm sold on their use for deer feeding supplement. Plant in August when the weather at it's finest for tillage. Gosh darn it, I just can't say enough good about them, LOL. The proofs in the pudding!

Video my first batch last Wednesday. Very tiny, maybe a few days old. Could only view them in the eye of the camcorder. Anyone else seeing them? I'll get that video posted in the near I

to Paula and Mr VJP.. Born on the Forth of July. How lucky is that!

Glad to see your effort put forth! Good luck and please post some pics on their progress. I'm curious as to how they will do.