Plants to be used primarily for food producers may be selected from the 

 preceding lists or may be such additional things as mulberry, hackberry, or sugar- 

 berry, wild cherries, hollies, sour gum, and persimmon. Good mast yielders are 

 the scrub oaks in the eastern, and shin oaks in the v/estern, part of the region. 



Trees and shrubs produce more or less permanent coverts and feeding 

 places, but much use is made also of herbaceous plants, annual or perennial, for 

 feed patches. Land with alternating areas devoted to feed patches and coverts, 

 or in any event with plenty of food available near good coverts, is ideal for 

 wildlife. 



Feed patches of a quarter acre to several acres in size are used. The 

 smaller ones are entirely satisfactory, and it should always be borne in mind 

 that proximity to good cover is necessary to full utility of a feed patch. 

 Plants suitable for feed patches are chufa and peanut for wild turkeys, and 

 winter pea, vetches, cowpeas, beggarweeds, Korean and common lespedezas, L espe- 

 deza sericea and other bushclovers, soybeans, sorghums of various types, millets, 

 benne, bullgrass, and Sudan grass for quail. Feed patches are fertilized and 

 cultivated just as in agricultural production of the same plants. Livestock and 

 poultry must be excluded. Expert advice should be obtained as to the best 

 methods of cultivation and as to tested strains of the legumes, sorghums, 

 millets, etc., for each locality. This information can be obtained from the 

 County Agent or from the Agricultural Experiment Station. 



A Farmers' Bulletin treating more fully the adaptation of farm practices 

 to wildlife production has been published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

 The number is 1719-F, and the title, "Improving the Farm Environment for Wild- 

 life." Copies can be obtained at 5 cents each from the Superintendent of 

 Documents, Washington, D.C. 



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