the area i hunt is in southern new jersey called the pine barrens. this is land that was under the ocean millions of years ago and it is land probably unlike anything you could find except for long island new york. it is a white sand soil and what they call scrub oaks and pygmy pines grow in it. not alot of nutrition at all. i do put out red trace mineral blocks and solar salt every year spiced with rack-up or similar. the average deer is usually way less than 100 pounds. from what i can tell from stomach content that i checked from years ago before baiting was allowed they eat mostly pine needles in the winter and what ever red oak acorns they can find. the month of january can be down right brutal. the last couple years it has averaged 20 degrees or less for almost the whole month with night being much colder. this year we had only 2 weeks of it. i have been puting out about 100 pounds spread on the ground once or twice a week since august in a couple different stand locations. im sure this isint there only feed most of the year but i worry that they may gorge themselves with the corn in the harsh winter weeks. i hunted the winter bow season this year for the first time in a couple years or i would have stopped the corn back in december.