6. The Ruffed Grouse.--The ruffed grouse or partridge feeds on wild 
fruits and green leaves during the fall. As much as a pint and a half of

clover leaves, strawberry leaves and ferns have been found in a single 
crop. As green leaves become scarce the buds and catkins of alder, white

birch, dwarf birch and aspen are eaten. It is very difficult to train ruffed

grouse to come to feeding stations, and unless they accidentally feed with

other game birds at a feeding station it is not practical to attempt to 
feed them by artificial means. Their winter diet of buds can be improved

by planting shrubs and trees, such as mountain ash and hawthorne, which 
retain their fruit all winter. If grit is hard to obtain these dried fruits

may be detrimental instead of beneficial, due to the fact that when the 
gizzard is full of hard pits or fruit stones the quartz grit is not retained

(Grouse Report, p. 99)1. Fruit stones and grit are hard enough to grind 
the dried fruits, but if buds were eaten it would be necessary for the bird

to get a new supply of mineral grit. 
7. The Wild Turkey.--Although the wild turkey at present has a very 
limited range in Wisconsin, it may be possible to greatly extend its range

if properly taken care of during the winter. 
During the fall the diet consists of green leaves, insects, fruits, 
and nuts. As these foods become scarce a search is made for fields of 
shocked corn or the hungry birds will go to a farmer's barnyard in case 
corn has been shocked or is fed to livestock on the ground. This wandering

in search of food during the winter must be prevented, for if the wild 
turkeys seek food at farms they get mixed up with tame turkeys and it is

hard to separate them again. 
The hopper, corn shock and tree hopper are recommended for feeding 
wild turkeys. 
-"The Grouse in Health and Disease", being the final report of
the Committee 
of Inquiry on grouse disease (2 vols., unabridged edition), Smith Ilder 
and Co., London, 1911. 
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