FORM 2287 
 
 
              ESTABUSMED 1802 
 
 E..Dou PONT De NEMOURS & COMPANY 
              INCORPORAICO 
          CONSERVATION DEPARTMENT 
        WILMINGTON, DELAWARE 
 
 GAME RESEARCH DIVISION                              December 8. 1930. 
 
 
 
 
    Mr. Aldo Leopold, 
    421 Chemistry Building, 
    University of Wisconsin, 
    Madison, Wis. 
 
    My dear Aldo - 
 
                On my return from the Game Meeting in New York I find a 
    number of reports from Earl Fry some of which are of interest to you

    and I am therefore quoting or digesting from these reports such items

    as I think are interesting: 
 
                Arthur Svihla who took Leffingwellts place at Washington

    State College at Pullma*, disappoints Earl Fry a little* He is a 
    young chap and apparently has no desire to become interested in state-

    wide study. He is a mammalogist and now studying the life history of

    mammals, particularly mice. He states that he has not taken up the 
    larger mammal study on account of the difficulty of doing field work

    and he could study mice in the laboratory. 
 
                His estimates on a deer study are that it would cost 
    $5,000. a year for a period of three years. Fry does not know any 
    club which could put up that much money. 
 
                Mrs. Leffingwell, widow of Dr. Leffingwell, is following

    up the work on the Hungarian partridge. She has been studying food 
    habits and is getting up a small report for the use of the local 
    county game department. She thinks she may go into bird raising some

    day and desires *he college game farm to take up Hungarian rearing. 
    In this Earl Fry is helping. 
 
               'lAt a meeting of the Whitman County Game Protective Associa-

    tion a complete report was made and it developed " one of the inter-

    esting features that the cooperation of the State College of Washington

    indicated that the local county association is obtaining a lot of 
    valuable assistance in bird rearing and fish work which the other counties

    are not getting. Birds are being raised by the field system at not over

    87 cents a bird. 1 
                This county association has been doing a lot of educational

    work among the hunters and mention was made of the statement given out

    by the county game warden that he had not received a single complaint

    from any of the farmers in the county as to the damage done by hunters

    and he attributes this to the educational work. 
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