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Nearly 50 Tons
Game Food Planted
Nearly 50 tons of seed for planting wildlife food plots was distributed by the Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries to some 13,311 cooperating sportsmen and landowners this spring, according to C. H. (Kit) Shaffer, Game Management Field Coordinator. The planting materials distributed included 82,706 pounds of game bird mix, 13,056 pounds of sericea lespedeza seed and 2,288 pounds of bicolor lespedeza seed. Hie seeds are distributed free of charge to interested landowners and sportsmen who have lands available on which to plant the wildlife food crop.
Hie game bird mix, the most popular item, is a blend of soybeans, cowpeas, Korean lespedeza, German millet, brown top millet, buckwheat, milo maize and rape. It is distributed in bags containing sufficient seed to plant 1/8 acre. Hie annual plants in the mixture are attractive to quail, turkeys, doves, rabbits and deer.
Sericea lespedeza is primarily a cover planting which provides shelter and nesting cover for quail, rabbits and occasionally turkeys. Hie plants are eaten by rabbits and quail utilize the seeds to a limited extent. Bicolor lespedeza is a shrubby plant which provides good cover and
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