FEEDING BIRDS IN WINTER 59 
The location should be near some trees or timber. 
Place several rows of poles in the ground radiating 
from the feeding place. Tie a few weeds, sunflower 
heads, thistle heads, a loose handful of hay or straw to 
the poles. These poles serve as finger posts to the 
birds. Feed seed from the hay loft, waste and small 
grain, cracked corn, etc. 
3. Carrion Places. — A German writer, K. T. Liebe, 
advises that spoiled meat, entrails, butchers’ offal, and 
any kind of dead animal be placed on the ground on 
open heights at considerable distances from farms, 
houses, and villages. According to numerous reports 
such food has served to protect partridges and small 
birds from the depredations of hawks, crows, ravens, 
jays, and magpies. It has also offered good opportuni- 
ties for decimating species that had become too numer- 
ous and for procuring rare specimens. Having made 
no observations on this point, I do not venture to say 
what benefit or injury may result, but should be very 
glad to hear from those who may try this plan. 
4. Feeding Prairie-Chickens, Ruffed Grouse or Par- 
tridge, and Quail.—In severe winters with heavy 
snowfall, quail and grouse sometimes die by the hun- 
dred, especially in the prairie states. Quails, if not 
molested, become very tame, and a good place to feed 
them is under the corn bin or under some similar 
shelter, where no cat can spring upon them. I have 
seen large flocks of them under the corn bin near a 
farmhouse. Prairie-chickens are much wilder. They 
will naturally come to a place where some shocks of 
