depends whats growin around you bud...
corn works fer us, well, cause they grow a bunch around us...
ask a farmer what the deer are eatin alot of, they are his crops, he will know, then put that out...
after farmer jon cuts his crops, your stuff will still be there.....
remember it takes the deer a couple weeks to change food sources. they wont change for a handful of what ever..need somethin thats abundant in your area, and then just hope they like yours more....
salt lick fer sure!!
as far as apples and pears...well if they grow in your area, they will work, but when we went out one weekend, i used the "crush some apples and leave em" routine, (no apple tree's around here) 5 deer took a wiff of em, and kept on eatin the corn wantin nothin to do with the apples...so here they do no good.