Field and Stream Sportsmen’s Note- 
book says— 
FOOD MEANS GAME 
LATE summer is the time to check on 
the wild crops and start planning strat- 
egy for fall hunting. Walk with your 
head up. If you see a bumper crop of 
acorns, such as most of New England 
enjoyed last fall, make a note to hunt 
the oaks in October. 
and squirrels for sure. Raccoons work 
You'll find grouse 
the oak ridges, too. In years when the 
acorn crop is only so-so, squirrels and 
’coons invade the cornfields. 
Walk along a beech ridge with your 
head still up. Lots of beechnuts prom- 
ise grouse shooting as soon as the frost 
opens the burs. Deer feed on beechnuts, 
too, even after snow falls and they have 
to paw through it to get a meal. 
Above all, check on the abandoned 
apple orchards. A big apple year prom- 
ises top grouse hunting, for the fruit at- 
tracts birds for acres around. Deer feed 
on apples, too. 
Come deer season, you'll find them 
skulking in the near-by thickets by day, 
boldly munching apples by night. Notice 
if any young trees are split apart at the 
first fork. That’s probably the work of 
a bear! 
Thorn-apples, wild grapes, berries— 
mark ’em all down for future reference. 
Because where you find feed you’re cer- 
tain to find game. 
WILD DUCKS ALSO EAT 
—AND WE EAT THE WILD DUCKS— 
’ 
Believe it or not but these are wild 
ducks actually feeding. There are ducks 
aplenty where their natural foods are 
abundant. Wild waterfowl can’t live on 
fence posts or waters barren of food. To 
them food is just as important as it is 
«to you or me or any other living creature. 
WM. O. COON, NATURALIST 
GAME FOOD NURSERIES—P.O. Box 371—OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN 
