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“They eat the blossoms, then they eat the apples! Especially Delicious,” Mr. Lee continued, referring to the early red and golden variety so popular with consumers. “Delicious — deer are deadly on Delicious. They’re like a bunch of cows around Delicious apples.”
In addition, he said, deer stunt young trees by eating new growth. “They just come along and nip and set them back a year or two . . . They rub up and down on the trees. I expect we lose an average of 20-25 trees a year to deer,” he said. “We have trees planted right at the house and still the deer come. They’re a disaster to orchards.”
Over the past five years, the situation has steadily deteriorated, according to Mr. Lee. “There’s nothing to do but just kill them,” he said, calling for a longer doe season in Rappahannock County. “Course, I know that hunters cause problems, too. But soon, if something isn’t done about the deer, we won’t be able to grow anything here. Deer’ll eat a garden. They lay down on crops — they’re rough on wheat and
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