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Show New Animal Repellent Will Lessen Free Meals Animal wildlife will find free lunches fewer and farther between next year. A new product developed by the B. F. Goodrich chemical company and tested by the state of Maine fish and game department at its Swan Island wildlife refuge, may be just what farmers have been seeking. At Swan Island, the new material has been sprayed on leafy crops by biologists who observe that it will not wash off and that a deer, after nipping at the treated leaves, will turn up his nose at future free meals. Certain types of insects also are discouraged by the action of the repellent, researchers revealed. Crop damage by raiding wild deer runs in excess of $150,000 annually an-nually in some districts of Maine and amounts to millions nationally. The search for satisfactory repellents repel-lents has been a major project. |