should be left unpiowed along hedges until spring. 
(3) For winter food leave a few rows of unhusked stand- 
ing corn, or plant small grain or sweet corn food patches near 
hedges or corn fields, 
(4) The tendency to nest in hay fields or in exposed 
locations where nesting cover is inadequate calls for special 
attention to nesting cover. FErotect wide ditch banks and road- 
sides from burning and do not mow weedy areas or roadsides until 
after July 15. Fastures that are not grazed too hard in May and 
June may provide safe nesting places. Look for nests in the 
outside 50 feet of the alfalfa fields. Fopulations of Hungarian 
partridges can be built up by attention to winter foods and 
nesting grounds. 
Rabbits.—(1) Rabbita thrive best in regions where a 
variety of cover is present. Hedges are useful for hiding places 
and for travel lanes. Brush piles, thickets of plum, raspberry 
and buckbrush are important refuge covers. Cord wood piled on 
poles, old farm machinery and rolls of old wire are used exten- 
sively. Old tiles and hollow limbs along hedges provide consider- 
able protection, 
(2) Food patches, clover fields, standing corn, sumac, 
_berry vines and piles of pruned aprle limbs are important sources 
of food. Corn fields are important winter feeding and ranging 
grounds if adjacent to aubddote or thickets. 
As for other possible game species, undisturbed grassy 
areas are most important as nesting places. 
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