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           I am a resident of Winston-Salem. 
           There might be a way to keep sheep from girdling fruit trees, and
to use them instead of cattle. One might be able to use a dilution of the
insect repellent capsaican, the purified heat of hot peppers. I have heard
that ruminants don't like hot foods(although they enjoy herbs-- fenugreek
and chicory). One could apply this in a maximum dilution to the trunks and
possibly foliage of fruit trees once initially and once for each
introduction of new animals/ newborns to the project. This initial contact
should condition them, after each new paddock contains yet more eye-watering
bark, to ignore anything tree-like and go with the safe stuff on the ground.
A transgression could hopefully be corrected with another application.  
 
                                   -Donahuer@ols.net