Dr. Fudolf Bennitt...page 7 
 
 
         During 1926 1 resigned from my post, accepting an opportunity 
to immigrate to the United States. By the time I had studied and 
understood the 6nglish language well enough to successfully apply 
for a position in connection with game management, my erstwhile 
enthusiasm for deer propagation was somewhat knocked out of joint. 
Not only did I find a reverse game evaluation, with the best 
sportsmen of this country making concentrated efforts with upland 
game rather than with big game, but even academic trained high game 
officials were inclined to discredit with profound disbelief the 
simple facts concerning deer propagation which I had the opportunity 
to observe in the practice and which are verified by all leading 
game authorities on the continent. 
 
 
        During 1928 I accepted an offer from a large German/American 
daily to join its editorial staff. As editor of the magazine 
supplement I had the opportunity to write a whole section devoted 
to hunting and game conservation. These efforts came eventually to 
the attention of the late Mr. Carlos Avery, then president of the 
(later reorganized) American Game Protective lissociation, who 
subsequently supplied me with material for publication. Net result 
after one yearf of these activities was a new, keen Lnterest in 
upland game restoration problems, and an offer to propagate pheasants 
and ducks for sporting purposes on the Long Island estate of a 
wealthy industrialist. I covered up my typewriter, dusted off my 
shotgun and accepted. 
 
        The stockmarket crash in 1929-1930 finished my career as 
a gamekeeper after one breeding season. What I had learned thus far 
was the fact that a game restoration program depends on the prevailing 
game laws which in turn seem invariably to be designed to: 1.) 
meet the demands of the voting sportsmen; and 2.) to compromise 
between the biological factors of reproduction and the natural 
ability of game to survive. I also began to realize that under these 
conditions upland game management was still a veritable virgin soil 
in which the weeds of commercial game mass-production grew lush and 
plentiful and all but crowded out such small but sturdy plants like 
the sound principles of Dr. Michon and altmeister Diet2el. 
 
 
        Anxious to learn more about Americam game management procedure 
from personal observation, I turned South from New York, bought 
myself a horse in Charleston, S.C. and spent three months in the 
saddle, travelling from one shooting Preserve to another, covering 
the coastal plantation belt from Charleston to the St. Mary's river. 
I learned a good deal. Especially what to avoid in connection with 
game restoration methods. It was at this time   that I became aquainted 
with a game specie new to me: Wild Turkey. I spent a month as a 
6uest at Cabin Bluff, the Sea Island Shooting Preserve of the late 
industrialist Kr. Howard Coffin and which today offers perhaps the 
finest turkey hunting in the country.