Baiting is illegal in Alabama but legal in Texas. Baiting includes corn or mineral supplements. Food plots (clover, grains, etc.) and pure white salt are legal. My personal property joins my hunting club. I reserve my personal property as a sanctuary area where I don't hunt them or shoot them. I do feed them over here near the pond to help them through the hard times. We are over populated with deer. One summer during our eight year drought there was an area that you previously couldn't see through it was so thick, once things got bad, the deer stripped it clean from the ground up to about six feet. It looked like a park when they got through with it. I fed corn year round that year. We can shoot 3 bucks a season and one doe per day for the entire season. That's how over populated they are. Our season runs from Oct. 15 - Jan. 31. I don't bait where I'm hunting, but I do feed pretty much the same deer on my property where I don't hunt. I have a trail camera on the feeder and have some really neat pictures of wild life. Coyotes and Bobcats visit at night looking for mice and rabbits. Rabbits, squirrels, opossum, raccoon, turkey, and deer come to eat the corn. Occasionally the deer will chase away the turkey. My rooster used to go out and socialize with the deer and turkey. He was a funny bird.