to be well adapted to latitudes of southern Illinois, probably 
because of unfavorable influences associated with climate, 
Management Suggestions 
Quails, pheasants, partridges and rabbits are the more 
common kinds of farm game in Illinois. 
Quail.—(1) For a maximum population establish as many 
dense brushy tangles as possible. Ungrazed woodlots, plum and 
hawthorn thickets, especially where wild grapes are present, 
thick hedges, plantings of locusts, buckbrush and honeysuckle in 
gulleys are the type of cover necessary for quail. Remember that 
well-distributed coverts of good quality are more effective than 
a single large thicket. Two areas of evergreens and brambles 
each 50 feet long or more per 40 rods of fence line may be nearly 
as effective as a continuous hedge, 
(2) Supplement brushy areas that are too thin with 
brush piles and corn shocks open at the bottom. An artificial 
shelter may easily be made by encircling a wigwam-shaped frame 
of poles with several turns of barbed wire and training around 
it a grapevine that is growing on the fence or ground nearby. 
(3) Insure a winter food area of ungrazed standing 
corn or a patch of small grain and weeds within 75 yards of each 
good brushy area, 
(4) For nesting cover, protect wide roadsides and 
other grassy places from burning or pasturing in autumn or spring. 
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