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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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Photograph by Dr. C. S. Apgar Fence rows permitterl to grow up furnish excellenl 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 luly 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. 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 13. 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 Emef gency Winter Feeding in this bulletin.
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Photograph by Game Commissioner Koss L. Leffler, McKeesport An easily constructed Bobwhite food shelter, buih by Boy Scouts. EMERGENCY WINTER FEEDING Many thousands of game animals and game birds are fed each winter in Pennsylvania with various kinds of grains, scratch feed, and occa' sionally with hay and alfalfa distributed especially for that purpose. During the past few years this feeding program has been stressed con- tinuously by the Game Commission and splendid assistance has been given by organized and individual sportsmen, farmers, rural mail car- riers. Boy Scouts and others. In many sections of the Commonwealth, Boy Scouts have organized successful feeding campaigns, and they, as well as farmers, are entitled to special commendation for their good work. For the welfare of our game, particularly game birds, everyone INTENTIONAL SECOND EXPOSURE

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