Page Eight                                                              
 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribuns                                         
          'Saturday, Septei iber 15, 1934 
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Prairie Grouse                                                    o     
                                    In Wood Count 
S.plains dotted, with dairy herds)werk Moe 
The Trperairie                    Chickens                              
                                                                     laws
liiting the tkin  P 
.....     184opent                                                      
            $ts, 
C  h   ick      en     s,-                                              
                                    limi tand hlaw continued in fore eah

year until 1905. 
Sporting                                           byg Man              
                                           if be-0 
In 1905 the staeleogitlatue actinga h  e 
best of some who saw the danger Of                             SNdb 
Best.Spoi'ting B1trds1...y M.,... 
y                     t tion, cut the tbson I n e to akt 
e170, rJtha zllor- 
o  . .  .-  !                       *                                e ber,
I to October  fo   a 
N LSmrods Tr Lhout Country 00 
Po                                                           her of     
 mn¢di 
athigbu II he During, Me", yearst was  A ¢hsoa" 
BY HENRY R. FEY                            leave a few hours after hatching,
but if                          it unte ars  i WZ  0  tm for 
hatching occurs late in the afternoon the old  c                 n0ns 
proud                                                                   
       ping eqipm mt Lem 
LWAYSproud, noble and sporting, thert are few things 6tturs which bird, unless
disturbed, will brood them on the erat wagipnii draniss th, 0 golgel 
nnest during the night.. 
have the human appeal of our native pratrre chicke                      
                              by a team Of stout bur, W,     d 
r      h      c     d    g       onl            th    . :               
 Game Wardens William A. Cole of Wiseeinsin was' rac*d the do7 4 w ! 
from which he can be distinguished only by exrts ,     ,       grouse,. Rapids
and John Worden of Plainfield were two nimrods wuk'not bother, to Joe 
But unable to withstand the encroachments 4qn lzau    h >gl-a        
  of Dr. Gross ini assistants during his'tw'o til # point ws  de Then  h

Wol aeOUaperelroroso telliiSi :10: fowl h. am MSummers motoinhe vieinity
of this city. -half                                        s neneedor. 
nain cokwmfl.n O                                            _, F  ak S tew
asi.f -ull-time assistant, and as forty forovam  du     d 
rPhcii by Wwsonal  f~sralo om o wl hav aiapeae frmms ftePari4 
sa pr 'he  scrutiniinig tl 'blind were so abundant. In only a few restricte"dset
        asrec 
fr swhie               t     dla, Ih f                 intinued his iwstigtion
f p ame 
from Which the( pi~re was tae boqr  entra                               
                             14u41=   V, n a    so i 
cetaand'somfenorthern part of Wt                                        
       kro     M 
the aest to setk food and 4rink. These rouse warrat shooting them fpr sport.
                                          -    h   htat uat  g          
              e    t.dyat- 
usuay walk seyera yards frotht eggs  oreJk                              
                                         is           cu~ies.  i     o  
                                .ti. 
taking wing,  -  gi    away the  .  .         The Two Secies            
   hisPerodng t........  I...  the            Periodic Cycles..rom.. 
to,  predat.            -The prairie chicken proper (Tym-  8Um9 One    l
              dhyis  Coupled with Unfavtrabl  r urghe thmueab 
panqehus Americanus) is a grouse of worn c,                         utter
hatehing Per!od, itIn , ablihat 
the Mississip  valley from  Manitoba theirciu ia                        
     disease wheha  ~de a a their nuaes- 
A--WatdMoMothet Grt dp 
to Texas. The upper part is streaked                          m a most w
                        most to thf oint of ection, pc they mfl b dt 
and spotted with rufous and black,    liestn.        i                  CC
rl morburet danMe, , .sf.vetw$4                    W 
J rm itd tickst        14-, mttea ofcka~ he' 
and the under parts white evenly bar- from, the ida"             sy
ton- aie   a    er  w     s, ja t  e . 
4. .                                                i oriheath   aiat   
    - ;. the  worst  S: ; ,,                , 
ed with blackish. On each side of the under 1o bshu           !yare een intotbs
                   hias an4)   o   a e  T r  Os~s  m 
amon tres o           ko are bf-4 M tfe. for.doath   i- rdo 
neck isa patch of bare, inflatible skin. 'ark ii col?          se Wi West
of bitedsfo ea 4 s of b.r:                  t  t&O  LF 
The legs are an orangeyellow, partial- brown, an  sligh         -thrds ehort-horned
graskhoppqrsrpague of the T.. 
ly covered with feathers, depending an aging in ayarint                 
     dict fprm rieaiclW'*dm6n  the IMiJI 
the fason. The average adult chick-  lg 'arq *NW~             , but  d sumer
and early fall months, These lead ._ 
ari yis from                    "o many. central ortam    e to fear
that n      4 b      *Aa 
en weighs about 50 ounces, and the two weeks  X Qr.                     1isibutput
Out for then rsta this year 1214C 
"                          Iv '                                    
   kiled  if 4hikeaas Rago  'oats,  clOvr,  " 
i, e  st on record scaled near  35-- ' 
f oc or po sal             e, " the black bdwed, asi  reap briar are
fat- h 
tee Phasianellus), although often fhe, ot24 days, dils