Bobwhite 



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EFFECT OF AGRICULTURAL IMPROVEMENTS ON QUAIL 

 PHIL II. SMITH FARM - 280 acres 3 mi. W. Williamsburg - CALLAY/AY CO., MO. 



Aldo Leopold 

 Mar. 1, 1930 



Game Survey 

 of Missouri 



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1 /Brushy rencerow 4 draw now cleared 



oak sprouts, hazel 4 

 buckbrush 





460 acre pasture: 

 lightly grazed by 50 cattle 



Fence row grubbed 

 out, 1925 



Draws cleared 4 

 plowed in, 1925 



Large hedge 40" 

 wide blown out, 

 1924 



Converted into 

 pasture by 

 grazing out, 

 1924-8 



Short brush 4 

 weeds on main 

 draw only 



This covey moved 

 out in late fall 

 because of insuf- 

 ficient cover 



LEGEND 

 Covey of Quail. ..(] 



Brush (distance / 

 apart indic- 

 ates density) 



Timber ... 



Cultivated | j 



Pasture 



(lightly I : : ' : l 



grazed; .i.- 

 Pasture'" -- ^ ....-....3 

 (heavily grazed) 



of stock 



\A.cres grazed 



Quail on farm 



yMiles of hedge, 

 draw, 4 fencerow 



\uail killed on 

 farm 



