Summary of Feeding Investigations, 1930-3l 
All flocks of prairie chickens did not aot the same. In Adams 
county one flock ate from a hopper. Nine other flocks refused to eat 
from hoppers, and it was decided not to use hoppers for prairie chickens

in 192, unless for experiments. In Portage county a buckwheat patch 
was located next to a field of shocked corn. Only six out of a flok 
of 250 ate buckwvheat. The entire flock migrated in February in search 
of another cornfield. In Waushara county a patch of standing corn 
with good corn was visited only occasionally during the winter by a 
small flock. In Adams cunty a flock fed on shocks Instead of on 
standing corn in the same fieold, 
The only feeding station used regularly by prairie chickens was 
the tepee shook station at Babcock, Wood county. It was decided that 
tepee shocks would be used for feeding prairie chickens In 1931-32. 
The tepee shook has several advantages. 
1. The cob corn is tied on In strings on the shook where it is 
above the snow. 
S. 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. 
4. The supply of corn can be renewed, while in an ordinary 
shock the corn available is soon eaten. 
5. Fewer tepee shocks are needed. A field of 160 ordinary corn 
shocks was deserted on January 1 because the corn on the outside of 
the shocks was all eatn. Four tepee shocks fed a flock of the same 
size and more corn was eaten in March than in January or February, as 
there was snow in March from the first to the twenty-first. 
6. Tepee shocks can be placed in cornfields, clover fields, grain 
fields, or fields of ragweed in which prairie chickens are feeding.