SUGGESTIONS FOR MANAGEMENT OF UFLAND GAME IN ILLINOIS 
R. E. Yeatter 
To produce a permanent population of upland game it is 
obvious that farmlands must possess (1) adequate cover for pro- 
tection at all times of the year, (2) places for nesting and 
rearing young, (3) a year-round food supply. The great majority 
of Illinois farms are lacking in one or more of these requirements 
and therefore possess a minimum of game and other wildlife. 
Food and Cover 
Froper distribution of food and cover is necessary. 
For the less mobile species the winter food supply on the farm 
may be too far distant from cover to be available. Even pheasants 
or other game that ranges widely suffer undue losses if they have 
to go too far for food in winter. 
Farmers and other landowners who desire to increase the 
amount of useful wildlife on their lands may usually do so by 
making available weed seed or grain food during the critical 
winter and early spring periods, and by plantings of thorny shrubs, 
or by allowing woodlots, corners, roadsides, ditch banks and fence 
rows or eroded areas to produce grass and brush cover. 
Cover.—Dense brushy cover is important to farm game as 
a means of escaping enemies. Furthermore, it promotes a feeling 
of security which keeps game from wandering away. 
