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Sharptaile desert the buckwheat patches for two reasons: 
1. The buckwheat is all eaten* 
2. It is covered with snow. 
Prairie chickens did not eat all of the grain in the buckwheat 
patches. They deserted the food patches in Portage and Adams counties 
during January where other food was available. 
All flocks of prairie chickens did not act the same. In Adams 
County one flock ate from a hopper. line other flocks refused to eat 
from hoppers, and it was decided not to use hoppers for prairie chickens

in 1932, unless for experiments. In portage county a buckwheat patch was

located next to a field of shocked corn* Only six out of a flock of 250 
ate buckwheat. The entire flock migrated in February in search of another

cornfield. In Waushara county a path of standing corn with good corn 
was visited only occasionally during the winter by a small flock. In Adams

county a flock fed on shocks instead of on standing corn in the same field.

The only feeding station used regularly by prairie chickens 
was the tepee shock station at BUbcock, Wood county. It was decided that

tepee shocks would be used for feeding prairie chickens in 1931-32. The 
tepee shock has several advantages. 
1. The cob corn is tied on in strings on the shock where it 
is above the snow. 
2. Prairie chickens would rather climb up on a shock than go 
under it. 
3. The tepee shock can be made hollow and a hopper placed under 
it for quail*