. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11. Game protection; Birds. ground prior to sowing the seed broadcast is satisfactory. It does excellently by sowing broadcast on top of winter wheat during the later part of March or the first of April. Unlike that of most legumes the seed loses its viability in a relatively short time, consequently seed of the previous year's crop should be sown to secure best results. Buckwheat is a very good wild turkey food. Either the common or Tartary may be used. The latter is probably better for game food. It is sown from the middle of June to the middle o
. Bulletin (Pennsylvania Game Commision), no. 11. Game protection; Birds. ground prior to sowing the seed broadcast is satisfactory. It does excellently by sowing broadcast on top of winter wheat during the later part of March or the first of April. Unlike that of most legumes the seed loses its viability in a relatively short time, consequently seed of the previous year's crop should be sown to secure best results. Buckwheat is a very good wild turkey food. Either the common or Tartary may be used. The latter is probably better for game food. It is sown from the middle of June to the middle of July. Sweet clover planted around gravel pits, stone quarries, along road- sides, eroded gullies, and other unused corners, furnishes very good cover for game and benefits the farmer by building up the soil and preventing erosion. This can be planted in the spring with oats or barley as a nurse crop. It can also be sown in June or July without a nurse crop or in corn at the last 1 Photograph by Dr. C. S. Apgar. Clean farming does not provide good game conditions. This area could be made better by permitting a few rows of grain along the edge to remain standing. Other plants suitable for food strips include cowpeas, millet, sorg- hum, and laredo soy beans. Cowpeas may be sown broadcast at the rate of \% to 2 bushels per acre or planted in rows ^ to 34 bushels in May or June. Millet is planted broadcast at the rate of 20 or 35 pounds per acre in June. Sorghum is planted in rows at the rate of 8 to 10 pounds per acre or broadcast in June using about 1 peck per acre. Soy beans are broadcast at the rate of 3 pecks per acre from the middle of May to the first of July. In mixture, of course, the amount per acre of each of the four plants should be only 34 oi that given for planting per acre. The patches 12 <( planted to the above can also include buckwheat broadcast at the rate of j4 to 1)4 bushels per acre from May to August 15th; corn planted in rows at the rate o
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