Carthage, 0:o. 
                                     Jan 23, 1930. 
 
 
 
 
 
      c/o Crane Hotel, 
           Carthage, o. 
 
 My dear 'r, Lohoefield: 
      This morning in talking with soe of the local 
 sportsren it dawned on ,-e that we will never have 
 another opportunityr an good as this one to learn about 
 the starvation of quail by post-morteni examination of 
 dead birds, 
      I have arranged with , r ,itchhart and *r. Rarry 
 Aollins to send a sxnall number of birds to the a who 
 is stud-yng quail at the University of !Isconsin in 
 case he wires that Ie mnt  thems  -ut the opportunity 
 deserves a  uch m6re corprehensive study than this one 
 man will be able to uakoe at a distance. 
      I at first thought of oalling up the -epartient at 
Jefferson City, but I was not sure of finding Claud Hunt 
in the office and -, a:a not sure that the other p:eople in 
the office would really understand hew to handle the matter. 
Accordingly, i decided to leave my suggestions with you in 
the event that you should feel like organizin, a study of 
this situation in your district on your own account, 
     The thinLs to be studied are, in my opinion, as 
follows 
       Ose dead birds which -r, 
;                            many seed in their gizzards. 
It occurred to me that if a bird starves with feed in his 
crop or gizzards then that sed must have mighty little food 
value, and if you could get such seeds identified it would 
put us one step ahead in sizing up what plants are valuable 
and what plants are worthless as quail food. 
      y su[-estion would be that you, through your wardens 
and through the sportsmen, collect ad let us weigh two 
birds out of each covey found starved and the- ask the Botany 
Hepartruent of the -niversity of - issouri to identify the crop 
or gizzard contents.