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Huntington, Indiana 
 
 
TOM L. WHEELER                        September 30, 1932. 
  EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 
 
 
 
 
 
                Mr. Aldo Leopold, 
                905 University Avenue, 
                Madison, Wisconsin. 
 
                Dear Mr. Leopold: 
 
                                 Your letter of the 28th came to-day with
the 
                handbook for Iowa sportsmen and farmers. It is all very interest-

                ing, and I am going to study it in detail. The remarks on
sportsman- 
                farmer relationships are very good and, I think, give us
the only 
                means by which near-home shooting is to be made possible
for Tom, 
                Dick and Harry. It is either that or sportsmen's clubs and
rented 
                game rights, and I do not like that---too expensive for the
average 
                man. 
 
                                  I took up the subject with Mr. Wheeler
of a survey, 
                our publication to pay the costs; but he says it is impossible
under 
                present conditions. I know The Indiana Waltonian does not
have the 
                money to do the job. 
 
                                 I believe our pheasant-carrying capacity
equal to 
                Iowa's, and that would give us 23,000 birds in Lancaster
township. 
                We stocked 200 and indications are that we got some good
increase 
                this summer. Allowing 10 for 75 females that survived, that
would 
                mean only 750 this fall in the township. Call it 1,000 and
we are 
                still only a twenty-third of capacity. Ie have stocked 100
more 
                this year in Huntington township, which is the township that
includes 
                this city. 
 
                                  In this state, in my opinion, we should
be chiefly 
                interested, after the next year or two, in quail, prairie
chickens 
                and ruffed grouse---all native birds and natives of Indiana.
One 
                game farm this year promises to nut out 1,000 bobwhites and
probably 
                will increase that in another year. 
 
                                 Our cover is very good, but what we need
to know 
                more about is the botany of conservation. 
 
                                 My scores have been low this year, down
toward the 
                foot. But I feel I can still hit a rabbit and in another
five of six 
                weeks will get a chance to prove it. How I wish we had deer
hunting 
                within reach of us. 
 
 
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Agriculture. 
 
 
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