probably by reason of its complete lack of regulatory power, the Division

has pursued the policy of opening up the whole state, regardless of local

scarcity or abundance. 
Stocking ? Damage: Kill ]i   es. As compared with South Dakota, 
Iowa, Minnesota and Michigan there is little talk of pheasant damage in 
 
Ohio. Since Ohio raises much corn, fruit, and other crops frequently 
attacked, this indicates that heavy concentrations of pheasants are less

prevalent than in the other states mentioned. 
Wickliff and Charlton assert that pheasant hens do not pull corn; 
that this activity is confined to cocks. This is an important point which

should be verified in the pheasant studies now under way in Michigan and

South Dakota. 
Satisfactory figures on pheasant populations are rare in Ohio as 
elsewhere. Trautman saw 100 (in a day?) in Huron Marsh; Wickliff 300, but

the areas hunted are not known. 
Gilmore says 3000 cocks were killed in the year   -  in the flow- 
age of the Dayton Conservancy District Dams on a strip of horseweed and 
willows on the Mad and Miami Rivers 25 miles long by 1/2 mile wide, or 
12 square miles of heavy cover. This kill is at the rate of 250 cocks per

square mile or one cock per 21 acres, - a heavy kill for such a large area.

This indicates a population of well over a bird per acre on this large 
tract. These figures are verified by Roy McGregor of Springfield. 
(In this same district Gilmore saw a pheasant cock riding down 
the river on a cake of floating ice, just as ducks do.) 
Swing saw 100 hens and 2 cocks in 1 day' s hunt on bottoms near 
Zenia in Greene County. 
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