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Title: Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11
Identifier: bulletinpennsylv11penn (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Game Commission
Subjects: Game protection; Birds
Publisher: Harrisburg, Pa. : Pennsylvania Game commission
Contributing Library: Penn State University
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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only when influenced by the sun and other conditions. Plowing brings about favorable conditions for part of these weed seeds. Sportsmen quite frequently secure the cooperation of farmers by pur- chasing a few shocks of buckwheat or unhusked corn or a patch ot uncut corn which is allowed to remain in the fields. It should be kept in mind that to be most useful the corn or buckwheat should be left near good cover. Perhaps arrangements could also be made to permit a strip of uncut grain or hay to remain along the edges of some fields. A strip four feet wide will do much good. If wheat stubble is cut high it pro- vides some cover to birds seeking the waste grains in the stubble field during the fall of the year.
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Photograph by Dr. C. S. Apgar Fence rows permitted to grow up furnish excellent game food and cover. Boy Scouts could help immensely in providing food for game and song birds if each troop would arrange for a patch of sun flowers. These provide excellent food for song birds and for game birds. A small patch near good cover would not require much work for the returns which would be secured for the birds. It is planted any time up to the middle of July in rows far enough apart to permit cultivation. Eight or ten pounds per acre should be sown and cultivated the same as corn. A small patch of broom corn could also be planted near good game cover. 14 This is very good quail food. It is planted about one to two weeks after the first corn is planted, that is May 1 to June 15. It is planted at the rate of about four pounds per acre. The seed is placed in rows three and one-half feet apart and covered about one inch deep. It must be cultivated by harrowing or hoeing frequently. After the seed ripens in the fall the tops of the stalks should be bent down so that the seed hangs about eighteen inches above the ground. In many sections it will also be possible for the Scouts to secure berry bushes or other game foodplants for planting in clumps around stone piles or other places where permission can be obtained to plant. The Scouts should also assist in the building of feeding shelters under which game can be fed during the winter. Wherever possible these shelters should be built before the time for feeding in order that game will have become accustomed to them before the winter's snow makes artificial feeding essential. Plans for shelters are shown under Emer' gency Winter Feeding in this bulletin.

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