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year's^hea'sa'nt^son i Tfl fr 1 y"pred ^ctabli" 9 fj® e^*" 9 * ee * end ° f th ‘‘ S 
the corn and soybean harvest will annrns h weather continues favorable, 
well advanced by early No“mbe A Zn “"P' 61 : 0 " a " d f a " Plowing will be 
Plowing was ootid fo/lg* anT i 9 75 .*"* harV6St a " d 
activities on the availability of pheasants '"fluence of harvest 
to be similar to that of the past seasons ?h s TV" ' 977 iS ex P ected 
w.ll be primarily affected by the abundance of pheasant ^ithT” tMS l 
Of pheasants present on the SSA and FCMU this fall in W I th Sparse numbers 
years, the man-hours expended by hunters on the c* a compar,son w,th previous 
during opening weekend Si,, p rolab^p ro^I ^ 
Ecology and Management of Squ 
i r re i s 
v ' • » ’ » AU| | y 
L. P. Hansen 
L. P 
with the best balanced'diet?^ ° f f °* squlrrel5 ln Illinois provides them 
compared the da Unfold consumpUon' °!r re9 ? rdin 9 fox squirrel nutrition, we 
metabo 1 ized energy/and balances °J\?' 9eS '°" a " d assimilation coefficients, 
(K), calcium (Ca), nagnesium (Mg)' p so „n WpI eie “ nts [sodium (Na), potassium 
diets of four species of oaT white" reS biac ^ w"h " tr ° 9en < N » am °"9 
(mockernut and shagbark), black walnut^'™ k ' !" d bUf ^ tw ° s P ecfes of hickory 
fox squirrels unde? s imi lated wi ^ t0 adu,t female 
only adult females in order to minimis P ratures and photoperiods. We used 
sex and age differences) and because * bet i eve'the 'In 'k - he r ? sults (eliminate 
female ,s essentia, to the continued ?rJ£'A? y oTtht'^e^t? ^u^ef^ulation. 
the htg h hIs b r c k atottt r7 a, ( u 7 es 56 of C the /9 i- and hick ° r V (7,386 ca,/g) had 
(7,036 cal/g). Soybeans is URR a w e * S >, e x a,,1 ' ned ’ followed b y black walnuts 
than black oak ( 5,360 ca I /g) ^but oak (^ost S 'i?\ t,y hi 9 her oeloric content 
White oak (4.461 cal/q) had the lo ~c«- 5 *? 52 - Ca and red oak (^919 cal/g). 
being almost identical with corn embryo^ 4 r 480 V «i/ a > f ‘sh d i et p axarained ’ 
contamed 6 9 percent (3,100 cal/g) mole ene’rgy than white Sak 7 
for corn getm^o a e h r igh t of e 9 ty 0 p dS rc d ^ e f 0 t ® d J an 9 ed f rom a °f 86-55 percent 
of corn germ digested was s ign i f i£ant ly\p-c r^nO k ] P ercenta 9 e 
-: k e :utt^ dS ;nd T bta“ e :i; Ci : ntS ^ To'r 
coefficients ot^lge^Uon^p!"^^ «?“ '' 7 **"" a " ^ 
urine) showed^sTrnfur^rend" 1 'w?th°r energy min us calories of 
percent) having lower coefficients the^i-h 'P e [ cent ) a "d soybeans (82-37 
intermediate coefficients of ass imi fat" th / °^ er foods ‘ The oaks had similar 
the lower values of he grains a?d L h* h ( " 86 ’?° percent > that feIi between 
shagbark (92.31 oerceTt\ 1 ] ? h, ? her va,ues of walnuts (87.23 percent), 
of assimilation for mockernut and shagL^^7 (94 ' 6 ' percent ^ The coefficients 
than the coefficients of the other ^dl ^ S '* 9n i f i can 11 y higher 
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