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areas should not be planted to timothy and small grain stubble should not be 
clipped. 
Table 1. Utilization of cover types by cottontails as indicated by fecal pel¬ 
let counts. 
Number 
Average 
Estimated 
Field 
Quadrats 
of Fecal 
Pe1 lets 
Pel lets 
Cover Types 
Acreage 
Counted 
Pel lets 
Per Quadrat 
Per Acre 
Winter wheat 
16 
120 
99 
0.825 
8,984 
Winter wheat 
10 
72 
8 
C. 1 1 1 
1,209 
Winter wheat 
12 
82 
21 
0.256 
2,788 
Soybean stubble (heavy weeds 
and 
straw) 
10 
84 
116 
9 
CO 
15,039 
Soybean stubble (few weeds, 1 
i ttle 
straw) 
23 
28 
0 
0.000 
0 
Soybean stubble (medium straw. 
few weeds) 
3 
47 
33 
0.702 
7,645 
Soybean stubble 
Wheat stubble (red clover) 
10 
72 
24 
0.333 
3,626 
cl ipped 
Wheat stubble (>*ed clover) 
10 
58 
0 
0.000 
0 
unciipped 
10 
87 
137 
1 0 575 
17,152 
Winter fallow (plowed) 
10 
44 
1 
0.023 
250 
Timothy (unmowed in 1962) 
13 
82 
130 
1.585 
17,261 
Red clover (unmowed in 1962) 
27 
141 
1,157 
8.206 
89,363 
TOTAL 
154 
917 
1,726 
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5« Responses of B obwhites and Prairie Chickens to Hab1 tat Manipu 1 at : on 
J. A. El 1 is, R. J, Ellis 
Twelve covies of quails were located during a census conducted in February on 
the iS-square mile study area located near Bogota in Jasper County. A total of 111 
were counted in the 12 covies, an abundance of 1 bird per $2 acres. The number of 
quails per covey ranged from 3 to 19 and averaged 9.25. Much of the study area, 
being prairie farmland, is cultivated, and thus affords little suitable cover dur¬ 
ing winter. Consequently, quails were found only on 9 of the 16 sections censused. 
The abundance of quails on those sections where they were located was 1 bird per 
52 acres. 
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