. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11. Game protection; Birds. the shrubs, as well as the trees, require sunlight. Consequently the planting must be made where they receive light. Food producing plants should be set close to cover or some cover plants set out in connection with the food producers. A very good plan is to plant a clump of 25 or 30 evergreens and nearby a clump of mixed shrubs. If these in turn are located near a food patch of grain, game is almost certain to be found there. The planting can be made on State owned land or lands upon which permission to hunt can be obta
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11. Game protection; Birds. the shrubs, as well as the trees, require sunlight. Consequently the planting must be made where they receive light. Food producing plants should be set close to cover or some cover plants set out in connection with the food producers. A very good plan is to plant a clump of 25 or 30 evergreens and nearby a clump of mixed shrubs. If these in turn are located near a food patch of grain, game is almost certain to be found there. The planting can be made on State owned land or lands upon which permission to hunt can be obtained. Farmers, no doubt, in many instances will readily give permission to hunt in return for the planting of trees and shrubs on their land. These trees increase the value of the land and most of the shrubs are very ornamental and attract song and insectivorous birds as well as game. The value of insectivorous birds to the farmer cannot very well be estimated in dollars and cents, but undoubtedly it is enormous. Some briars, grape vines, bittersweet, IMjotoRraph by .1. \. Morton Wild ^rai>r«i provide exrelleni ganu' food aiul cov€»r. should be encouraged along fence rows, old dumps, stone quarries, gullied areas and other unused corners of the farm. A great many of the trees and shrubs, as well as vines, including the valuable wild grape, which produce desirable foods for upland game, are more or less objectionable to the forester whose aim it is to produce the greatest volume of wood on a given area. Unfortunately, most of the food-producing species have little or no lumber value and are con- sidered undesirable by the forester and are termed "forest weeds.'' The ultra-scientific forester, failing to realize their inestimable value to wild life, looks with disdain upon these "forest weeds" and desires above all else to replace them with lumber trees. Fortunately, most foresters in this country, not being of the ultra-scientific type, appreciate th
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