Identifier: historyofgamebir00forb (find matches)
Title: A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Forbush, Edward Howe, 1858-1929 Massachusetts. State Board of Agriculture Beecroft, W. I. (Willey Ingraham), b. 1870 Job, Herbert Keightley, 1864-1933
Subjects: Game and game-birds -- Massachusetts Game and game-birds -- New England Birds -- Massachusetts Birds -- Conservation New England Birds -- Conservation Massachusetts
Publisher: Boston : Wright & Potter Printing Company, State Printers
Contributing Library: State Library of Massachusetts
Digitizing Sponsor: State Library of Massachusetts

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Fig. 26. — Tubers of sago pondweed. (Natural size.) (From Circular No. 81, Bureau ofBiological Survey, United States Department of Agriculture.) food as is S. latifolia in the west. The Indians of Oregon usethe tubers as food. Mr. McAtee has identified for Dr. J. C. Phillips anotherduck food which grows in Wenham Lake, and which provesto be quill wort (Isoetes echitwspora). Smartweeds (Polygonum) are eaten by many wild-fowl,and certain water grasses are favorite foods of some species.Mr. Wilton Lockwood, who has had much experience in rear-ing wild-fowl, recommends Poa aqiiatica, a European plantwhich grows naturally here. Probably Glyceria grandis, thereed meadow grass, which somewhat resembles P. aquatica,would be equally attractive. It grows along the banks ofstreams and in wet meadows. Wild Geese eat the roots of certain reeds and are very ■■^Vr^aa^-e ■ -■.^■^!7
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CONSERVATION OF GAME BIRDS. 581 fond of young and tender grass and grain. If a field, near apond or river, is sown with winter wheat or winter rye, theyoung plants will attract Geese, because such plants offerthem a supply of green food late in the fall and early in spring,when other green vegetation is not plentiful. The Wood Duck sometimes may be attracted to nestingboxes made to resemble hollow hmbs. Attracting Upland Game Birds. The Bob-white prefers a rich farming and grain-raisingcountry to all others, but it is also very important to furnishthis bird good cover, and in a thrifty truck-farming region,where clean cultivation prevails, there is little cover left forthe Quail. Thickets along fences, bushy swamps, weed-grownfields or thick growths of cane, corn or other grains furnishdesirable cover, but winter cover is most important. Grainraising helps fatten Bob-whites, as they pick up much wastegrain in the fields, but weeds where plentiful will take theplace of grain, as the Qu

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