Mulberries (_Morus rubra_), when they are abundant, constitute all or an important part of the diet of ornate box turtles. On June 4, 1955, William R. Brecheisen and I drove along a road in Anderson County, Kansas, and stopped at each mulberry tree that we saw beside the road; we found at least one specimen of _T. ornata_ under nearly every tree. Approximately twenty box turtles were collected in this manner in a little more than one hour. The heads and necks of most were stained dark-red from the fruit and, in some, nearly the entire shell was stained. Dissection of these turtles revealed that their stomachs were distended to two or three times normal size with mulberries; no other kinds of food were found in the stomachs. Some of the turtles voided purplish-black fluid from the cloaca when we handled them; the color of the fluid presumably resulted from mulberries. Several turtles were observed through binoculars as they foraged. Individuals snapped or lunged periodically at objects on the ground along the route of travel. Upon reaching an area where cow dung was abundant, a turtle would move directly to a pile of dung and begin tearing it apart with the forelegs or burrowing into it. Turtles most often foraged in cow dung that had a superficial, dried crust. The invertebrate fauna of older dung was probably greater than that of fresh dung. Adult and larval insects were eaten, along with quantities of dung, as they were uncovered. Sometimes box turtles chased and caught larger insects that ran a foot or more away from the pile of dung; the turtles could cover the distance of one foot with three or four quick steps. Depressions made by box turtles in cow dung, as well as drier cow dung that had been more completely dissected, were regarded as characteristic "sign" of _T. ornata_ at the Damm Farm and in other areas studied (Pl. 26). Several persons have told me of box turtles "eating cow dung"; these reports, most of them made by competent observers, probably result from observations of box turtles ingesting cow dung incidentally, along with some unseen item of food. Contents of stomachs were analyzed. Scats and contents of lower digestive tracts, although obtained in large quantity, were unsuitable for analysis because of the fragmentary nature of the foods they contained. Relative amounts of various kinds of foods in stomachs were estimated; volume was determined by displacement of water or fine shot.