Word: quail
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...where they will make their headquarters at the Woodland Park Hotel. Both Hughitt, the quarterback, and Splawn, on whom Michigan's chances for a field goal rest, will be in condition to play in Saturday's game. The following men compose the Michigan squad: Staatz, Dunne, Reimann, Benton, Finkbeiner, Quail, Norton, Morse, Raynsford, Skinner, Neimann, Millard, Whalen, Graven, Watson, Cochran, Huebel, Lyons, E. James, D. James, Hughitt, Zieger, Maulbetsch, Cohn, Splawn, McHale, Roehm, Bentley, Catlett, Galt and Bushnell...
...Shields prefaced his talk on snow slides with a lengthy treatment of the economic value of the game birds to agriculture. Contrary to the common belief, the owls and hawks so generally detested by farmers are a great factor in the destruction of insects harmful to crops. Even the quail, one of the most valued game birds of this section, would do much toward saving the great loss from insects, if it were adequately protected from extermination. The lecturer gave a vivid illustration of the good done by such common birds as the kingbird by stating that although the latter...