mVbe frther enhaned by rotating the food patches. The distance 
from other agricItal op erations will rnder such weads hamless. 
F    t      At present there are no prodators a   ant enoug to 
Interfere with grxue mnagement, but as the rnber of birds Is increased 
certain animals will have to be I.pt down. The oat and the weasel are 
important as destroyers of nests.  If crows bother. it is an inication 
of not sufficient nesting cov-r and the mnge sould be Imroved for 
nesting by regulating the abundance of small hizhea and grasses. On 
certain winters goshaks my com in from Canada andl shouldI be kept 
under control. The other hawks are of negligible            as des- 
troyers of grose. Until the nuber of birds to much greater than at 
present, it iill not be possible to detemine Just what other predators, 
if anywill have to be kept under control4 
The extent of the increase of grouse obtainable by modification 
of the rawe mast be determined by actual tests. On the heither lands 
of Scotland populations of red grouse at least 30 times as dense as 
those now fw! in Washburn County are prev-alet. - vea a 10-fold 
increase in the annual crop would provide shooting much better than arW 
now existing in this @untr7  Siarptail Pee shootin    and prairie 
chicken shooting are both of such outstanding quality, exwecially from 
the viewpoint of the bird do, enthusiast, that there shold be no 
difficulty In finding a ready denn for 4Ltwver crop can be produaed, 
either in ashburn County, or elsewhere in Wisconsin. Bird dog men 
now  ome from ma   distant states to atted field triKls at Solon Springs

In Dglas Cunty, *Fere a fair grse population exists due to food 
patches maintained by the Northern States Amater Field Trial Association.