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DIVISION DIRECTORS                                            DIVISION DIRECTORS

ELLERY A-FOSTER                                              HAROLD W. LATHROP

FORESTRY                                                     STATE PARKS

RAY DONOLAN                                                   ED. L . SHAVE

LANDS AND MINERALS                                            TOURIST BUREAU

HARRY E. SPEAES     DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION                WALTER S OLSON

GAME AND FISH                                               DRAINAGE AND
WATERS 
GUY W. C RAVENS                                            AODPESS: STATE
OFFICE BUILDING 
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER                                            ST. PAULMINNESOTA

HERMAN C.WENZEL 
COMMISSIONER OF CONSERVATION 
May 29, 1939 
Mr. F. N. Hamerstrom, Jr. 
In Charge Prairie Chicken Investigation 
College of Agriculture 
424 University Farm Place 
Madison, Wisconsin 
Dear Mr. Hamerstrom: 
Your letter of May 24 has been received. 
So far, we have used only two types of 
bands, the regular pheasant band being number 31-6, and 
the quail band number 31-4. We have used the regular 
pheasant bands for the sharptailed grouse work done at 
Camp S-98, Wilton, Minnesota. 
I have not filled out the mimeographed 
progress reports for the reason that no prairie chickens 
or sharptails have been banded by the state except those 
banded by Manweiler, Swanson and Virtue, and I understand 
you already have their reports. 
I thank you for your letter and for the 
information contained therein. 
Very truly yours, 
Gordon Fredine 
Biologist 
Division of Game and Fish 
GF:ad