Have you ever traveled through western Kansas? It’s a bountiful area that produces wheat, corn and beef cattle that feed thousands of people around the world. In its own way, western Kansas is quite beautiful, that is, of course, unless you like a lot of trees.
Western Kansas is also flat, and when I say flat, I don’t mean kind of flat. I’m talking smashed with a giant skillet flat. If you were looking for good descriptive words, vast and expansive would come to mind.
If you stand in the middle of Highway 400 just west of Dodge City and look out at the horizon, you can get a good understanding of why people once thought the Earth was flat. After all, it sure looks that way. Of course, we now know the Earth isn’t flat, but it wasn’t a popular belief until science and ocean navigation proved it.
There are many other examples of popular beliefs being dramatically changed through scientific discovery. Even in the “deer world,” we are continuously finding that what we thought was fact one day is completely disproved the next.
For example, for many years, it was commonly accepted that adult bucks did all or most of the breeding. However, while recent studies have shown that adult bucks indeed do much of the breeding, bucks as young as 1½ are also involved in the rut game.
For several years now, I have been formulating free choice minerals for wild deer. When formulating free choice minerals, or any feed product for that matter, the vital elements include the ingredients used
