Control of Factors.   It would therefore appear that if there 
is ever to be any more legal quail hunting in Ohio, it must be legalized

on some selective and flexible basis which will open only the lands on 
 
which cultural methods (i.e. real management) are in effect, and with the

stipulation that those measures be sustained and proven effective by 
some system of actual yearly inspection of each parcel of such lands. 
Even such a flexible system of fitting the reaping to the 
sowing (so to speak) is a matter for the future rather than the present,

and is mentioned only as bearing on the appraisal of hunting as a factor

in quail productivity. After research has shown what happens to Ohio 
quail will be the time for the state to consider the practicalbility of 
any such system. 
Summary of "Natural qail Farming" vs. Closed Seasons. The 
possible system of environmental controls herein referred to has been 
collectively designated as "Natural Quail Farming" in the Prospectus

describing the proposed quail Fellowships offered by this Institute. 
While the detailed technique and costs of control remain to be worked 
out by research, the probable results on quail can nevertheless be com- 
pared, in a broad way, with the present idea of total closure on hunting.

The total number of quail in the state will not shrink under 
continued closure to the same degree as in Iowa, because Ohio is not a 
steer-feeding state, and steer feeding is harder on cover than dairying 
or general farming. 
However, continued closure will make for very uneven distribu- 
tion. The heavy dairying regions and intensively cultivated regions 
will approach zero as the brush and weed cover diminishes, since there 
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