OXFORD UNIVERSITY 
                 DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY AND COMPARATIVE ANATOMY 
 
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UNIVERSITY MUSEUM 
                                        3                             OXFORD

                                                                Telitkons:
OXFORD 4261 
BUREAU OF ANIMAL POPULATION                                     Teleg'ramS:
MUS. OXFORD 
 
 
 
         rent.   Apart from producing vast numbers of hand-reared pheasants,

         the keeper can do very little beyond preventing poaching, and killing

         dawn the predators.   The Euston system is applied by many -ane-keepers

         to partridges, but does not appear to give very noticeable results
as 
         compared with estates where the birds are left to manage themselves.
I 
         think, however, that there are great possibilities of modifying
the 
         Puston system, and actually making each bird produce nearly twice
as 
         many eggs as it would normally do. 
 
                     The data I have at present indicates that a fall density
of 
         approximately two partridges per acreover 4 unit areasup to five
thou- 
         sand acres, sometimes occurs, so it would seem that the saturation
point 
         is much higher in partridges in this country than it has been found
to 
         be with quail or partridges in America. 
 
                    -    Winter feeding is largely practised on the best
estates 
         but is done so casually that no-one knows what use it is.  Pheasant

         rearing is the business which occupies most of the average keepers'
time, 
         and anything up to five thousand hand reared pheasants are put down
on 
         an area of a thousand acres, the birds being fed continuously until
they 
         are shot; but even in this highly organised business, the losses
from 
         egg to shooting are frequently more than W0l. 
 
                     You will see from what I have aaid that I have not a
very 
         good opinion of British game management in general, but I see no
reason 
         at all why it should not be developed into an exact science, and
I 
         gather that this is also your opinion regarding American game management.

         One must have real knowledge of the animals concerned in order to
manage 
         them. 
 
                     In conclusion, I would like to congratulate you upon
your 
         appointment to the chair of game management at Wisconsin, and I
shall 
         look forward very much to hearing from time to tine, the results
of your 
         work.   I only wish that we, in this country, were able to go ahead
on 
         such a large scale programme.  In any case, I hope that we may keep
in 
         close touch on all points during the next five years.  If I can
give you 
         any exact information for your own purposes about British game populations,

         I shall be only too pleased to do so.  I hope that sometime you
may be 
         able to come over to England to see for yoursiif the conditions
of British 
         game management, as I am aure that this would be of great interest
to you. 
         If you do this at any time, I hope you will allow me to act as your
guide.