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and ordinarily should be planted in separate rows—not mixed. 
Flant not over 10 rounds to the acre to insure seeding. Where 
it is possible to devote as much as one acre to a food patch half 
of the area should be planted the first spring, and the other half 
the following spring, while allowing the first to lie fallow. 
This plan provides an additional supply of weed seeds and also 
provides excellent nesting cover. 
Nesting cover.—Frovision of undisturbed nesting cover 
is essential to successful game management. Avoid unnecessary 
burning of wide fence rows and roadsides at any time of the year. 
Fence off and plant or allow natural growth of brush and grass 
of all eroded areas. Leave field corners and strips of ungrazed 
grass along ditch banks. Grassy strips should be eight feet or 
more wide to minimize danger from nest-robbing enemies. 
In fields the majority of game-bird nests lie within 
the first 25 or 30 feet from the edge. By making three or four 
trips on foot around hay fields ahead of the mowing machine, 
these nests may be located and an "island" of vegetation left 
around them during mowing, 
Flushing bars attached to mowing machines work well 
under some conditions, but have not yet been tried out sufficiently 
in Illinois to enable us to state which type is best suited to our 
soncitions, 
Although the native species—quails, rabbits and 
squirrels—-thrive everywhere in the state where favorable condi- 
tions are provided, pheasants and Hungarian partridges appear not 
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