MONTHLY WILDLIFE RESEARCH LETTER 
Vol. 1, Nolll 
Page It 
Forty cocks were shot, 39 of x^hich were brought through the check 
station. Seven cocks were reported crippled and lost. About one-half of the 
parties hunted with dogs and bagged 28 of the 1)0 birds checked (70 per cent). 
The hunters spent 18.U man-hours afield per cock bagged, and 1.6 man-hours were 
spent per pheasant seen of either sex. 
The sex ratio and cock age ratio observed were both low, O.Sh hens 
per cock and 1.3 juvenile cocks per adult cock respectively. The sex ratio may 
have been distorted by a sex differential in flushing tendency or by excessive 
hen mortality. If it is assumed that the adult and juvenile pre-hunt sex ratios 
were actually even, the adult cock population being essentially unhunted, a 
fall age ratio of 2.6 young per adult hen results. 
Wide-Row Corn P. Vohs 
A manuscript on wide-row corn is being prepared for the Business News 
Letter published by Southern Illinois University. Work is continuing on the 
revision of the wide-row corn manuscript covering the data from the 3-year study. 
