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Show Quail, Farmers' Friend, Must Have Food Supply Among the chief causes for lack of quail and upland birds on farms may be scarcity of necessary food and cover. cov-er. Failure to supply substitute "patches" when natural feeding ground has been destroyed and neglect to pre serve the natural cover for the bob-white's bob-white's habitat, are among the chief causes of gradual reduction, says the Missouri Farmer. Many measures maybe may-be taken on the average farm to increase in-crease or improve the food for quail, and help bring about an increase in their numbers. Seed can be broadcast in early spring around gulleys and washes, on roadsides, around the borders of fields and like situations. Cain, hemp, les-pedeza, les-pedeza, clover and many species of small wild beans and cowpeas provide excellent sustenance for quail. Once started lespedeza volunteers year after year, unless killed out by burning the land over after the seed germinates in the spring. When harvesting grain a few rows on the outside near cover may be advantageously left for the birds. Quail at times do much work on the farm by destroying serious insect in-sect pests and are considered one of the farmer's best allies and deserve the serious consideration on any man's farm. |