the possibilities for cover will be increased. 
The planting of willow cuttings along stream 
banks where permission can be obtained will 
benefit both fish and game. 
Comprehensive predator campaigns in the 
interest of the conservation of wildlife, and 
in the case of crows for the protection of 
fruit and grain crops, should always be 
carried on. The losses to game, and the eggs 
and young of song and insectivorous birds, 
by crows and other predators each year Is 
appalling. Any program to decrease their 
numbers assists in conserving wildlife sup- 
plies. 
The hunting of crows provides a late 
winter and early spring (especially the nest- 
ing season) sport when there is no open 
shooting season for game birds or animals. 
Prizes for the most crows and other known 
killers shot by individuals In each organ- 
ization are sure to provide an incentive for 
more activity in reducing the numbers of 
these enemies of valuable wildlife.  Don't 
overlook the abandoned house cat! 
You can also render a great service to 
wildlife by urging all dog owners to keep 
their pets from roaming at large during the 
breeding seasons for wildlife. 
Hundreds of thousands of birds are de- 
stroyed In Pennsylvania annually during 
the harvest season. Farmers, wherever pos- 
sible, should be encouraged to use flushing 
bars on mowing and harvesting machines 
to prevent losses of game birds and eggs 
during the hatching season.   Patches of 
grass around the nest should be saved by 
raising the knives of the mower, and the 
birds will immediately return and hatch 
their own broods. Arrangements should also 
be made to take care of the eggs when a 
nest is mowed over or the mother bird 
crippled before being located. 
There is a decided need for these flush- 
ing devices.  Their potentialities are un- 
limited. It has been estimated that if only 
one egg were saved for every acre of land 
in hay, wheat, oats, etc., over 167,000,000 
birds would be saved annually in the United 
States. This great potential benefit far out- 
weighs any slight inconvenience or the value 
of patches of hay left standing. 
A number of different types of flushing 
bars are now in use. Illustrations of two of 
the types are shown and described.   The 
 
Nesting cover patches saved around a 
tree or clump of trees and odd or unused 
corners of the farm should be encouraged 
wherever possible. Fencing them to ex- 
clude stock is especially desirable. 
 
Two logs 8 or 10 feet long laid side by side about 6" apart, 
and well covered with brush or stones, provide escape cover for 
rabbits or ringnecks. 
 
Stiff crooked brush, particularly oak branches, placed in small 
piles on grass sod makes very good bedding grounds for rabbits. 
It should be placed in a field or pasture with southern exposure, 
near a woodlot or briar thicket. 
 
The English flushing bar consists of a light-weight pole about 
ten to twelve feet long, attached to the front end of the tongue 
of the mowing machine, and projecting over the path of the 
cutter bar. 
From this pole, in the approximate positions shown, and 8" 
to 10" apart, are suspended short wires, to the ends of which 
have been attached short lengths of old chain (old cross links 
of auto chains are excellent). The ends of the chains should 
just drag the ground so that in mowing they will sweep lightly 
over and through the grass. 
In order to prevent the inner chain from tangling in the 
horse's feet when turning, a diagonal wire should be run from 
the middle of the pole to that chain, attaching it about-half 
way down the inner wire. 
The best means of attaching the pole to the tongue of the 
mower is to make up two brackets of old strap iron, in the form 
of a right angle, with each arm about eighteen inches long. 
fhese should be drilled for 3/8" bolts by which they are attached 
to the tongue. The pole may then be fastened by means of bolts 
or wired to these brackets. If it is felt that this is too compli- 
cated, the pole may be wired to the neck-yoke, but the brackets 
are easily made, and are far more preferable. 
When a nesting bird is flushed, jump the knives of the mower 
over a patch of grass around the nest. The bird will return to 
the nest. It is important that flushing devices be used while 
mowing first 30 to 50 yds. around edge of fields where majority 
of game birds nest. 
 
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