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MAKE YOUR PROPERTY ATTRACTIVE TO UPLAND GAME BIRDS 
On most properties there is some natural food for 
upland game birds and also some natural cover, 
Perhaps there is insufficient to support large numbers 
of game. One can thus increase the number of game 
birds by adding to the food supply and natural cover. 
It’s not necessary or advisable to make large fields 
of grain for them. We recommend what is termed as 
a “spot” planting, a lot of small feed beds with 
natural cover nearby. Insects are plentiful in spring 
and summer, but perennial shrubs, bushes and vines 
as well as stocky seed-producing grains of fall and 
winter are important. 
These upland game birds need places to dust where 
the sunlight can get to them. Wild Grasses and 
plants are important to the game’s dietary. 
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REMEMBER THE PASSENGER PIGEON AND 
THE HEATH HEN? 
Back in the late nineteenth century—not many 
years ago, the passenger pigeon was here in count- 
less thousands. During migration, they would actual- 
ly darken the sky and blot out the sun. Wonderfully 
prolific, having the forest of the north as its breed- 
ing ground, traveling hundreds of miles in search of 
food, it was here today and elsewhere tomorrow. 
This day they are gone; the last passenger pigeon 
died in 1914 in the Cincinnati Zoo. 
Next the heath hen, their numbers have also 
dwindled away. In 1916, there were estimated about 
2,000 heath hens, in 1928 there remained but three, 
today they likewise are gone. 
Let us not further destroy the 
haunts of our remaining wild life, 
let us conserve and thus perpetuate 
the sports which are dependent up- 
on them that we may bequeath to 
our children their rightful remain- 
ing heritage, for that which has 
been so ruthlessly destroyed can 
never be regained. 
Wm. O. Coon, Naturalist 
GAME FOOD NURSERIES 
OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN 
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