APPENDIX (g) 

 INDEX 



ABUNDANCE ratios, 292. See also species 



and ratios. 

 Agricultural belt, 18; colleges, 28, 68, 69, 



88, 127, 261, 264; extension, 265; high 



schools, 265. 



Agricultural changes on Smith farm, 29. 

 Agriculture, changes in relation to prairie 



chicken, 179; relation to quail, 25, 29, 59, 



67, 74. 

 Alfalfa, 181. 

 Audubon, quoted, 165. 



BANDING, exotics, 120; prairie chickens, 176; 

 quail, 47, 51. 



Beebe, W., quoted, 121. 



Bell Telephone Co., sleet records of, 76. 



Bibliography, 285- 



Big game, management, 197. See Turkey 

 and Deer. 



Big Sleet, The, 77, 78. 



Big Snow, The, 77. 



Biological Survey, 89. 



Blackfly, 205. 



Blueberry, 178, 181. 



Bluebird storm, 76, 77. 



Bluegrass, competition with ragweed, 68; in- 

 troduction of, 67. 



Bobwhite, see Quail. 



Bode, I. T., photographs by, 88. 



Bogardus, A. H., quoted, 26, 64, 65, 71, 94, 

 151, 165, 190, 192. 



Buckwheat, 165, 180, 181. 



Budding by birds, see species. 



Buffalo, 164. 



CANVASBACKS, 202, 211, 212. 



Caribou, 21, 193. 



Carp and carp control, 200, 202. 



Cat, see Housecat. 



Census, game. See species. 



Charging for shooting privileges, 251, 252. 



See also species. 

 Chicken trains, 186. 

 Chinch bug, 64, 181. 

 Closed areas, quail in, 39, 46. 

 Closed seasons, see species. 

 Cockrum, W. M., quoted, 89, 164, 190. 

 "Cold Friday," 76, 78. 

 Colony failure, see Ringneck and Hungarian. 

 "Comeback of 1912," 171, 172. 

 Commission-director plan, 238, 239. 

 Concentrations, see species. 

 Conifers, 71. 



Conservation, courses, 262; department or- 

 ganization, 237; director of, 239; per cap- 

 ita expenditures for, 235; programs, 240; 

 reorganization of, 260; schools, 261. 



Cook, W. W., quoted, 173. 



Cooke, W. W., quoted, 173, 174. 



Cottontail rabbits, bedding out, 95; distri- 

 bution, 89; increase with settlement, 89; 

 holing- up zone, 95; meat industry, 90; 

 plantings, 90; planting stock industry, 92; 

 prices, 90, 92; seasons, 98, 99; shipping 

 points, 91; shortages, 93, 135, 138; sick- 

 ness, 93, 135, 137, 138. 



County agents, 265. 



Cranberry, 178, 181. 



Crippling loss, ducks, 208; quail, 87. See 

 also Ratios. 



Crows, abundance and trend, 230; bounties, 

 232; census, 219, 230; control, 232; dis- 

 ease, 232; distribution, 229; migration, 

 229; night hunting, 232; radius of roosts, 

 231; roosts, 217, 219, 230; size of roosts, 

 232; stability of roosts, 231. 



Cruising radius, chickens, 175, 180; house- 

 cat, 229; quail, 47. 



Cutover lands, 257. 



Cutworm, 181. 



Cycle, 96, 98, 134; cause of, 146; chart, 

 140, 142; key to cycle chart, 288; lag, 

 137, 144; length of, 135, 138; order of 

 mortality, 137; relation to administration, 

 142, 147, 188; relation to species bound- 

 aries, 164; season of mortality, 138; 

 skipped cycles, 155, 166; species affected, 

 135, 173; territory covered by, 136. See 

 also species. 



DALKE, P., quoted, 120. 



Dawson, W., quoted, 162, 230, 232. 



Deer, census, 194; comparative persistence, 

 189; distribution, northward shift, 149, 

 193; doe killing, 195; kill, 195; need of 

 study, 198; populations, 194; relation to 

 prairies, 194; seasons, 197; success ratio, 

 195, 197; telling age of, 199; trend of, 

 194; yarding, 198, 199. 



Democracy, production of game in, 21. 



Density, see species. 



Department of Agriculture, type of organi- 

 zation, 238. 



Description of types, 15. 



Diseases and parasites, see species. 



Disharmony with environment, 175. 



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