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    Retreat             E. M. PERCY 
 
                   West Feliciana Parish                      ri 
 
                     PLETTENBERG, Lk. 
                        3-3-32 
 
 
       Mr. Stewart Comeaux, 
       103 Park Ave., 
       New York City. 
       Dear Stewart: 
       It has been some time since I have heard from you but I suppose 
       that you are still at the stand where I heard from you last. 
 
       Another hunting season has come. and gone. Business not quite so 
       active this season. Depression has everyone.   Those that 
       couldn't return wrote in deploring the fact that they had neither

       the money or the time this season but hope to make it next year 
       and stay longer. 
 
    I Well, the question before the house at this writing is: - what 
       effect has the gray fox on quail propagation?   I would like to 
       have this question answered very much and I believe that you 
       must be in touch with the proper authorities to know. 
       And this is how the question has arisen and the circumstancial 
       evidence that Ican offer, - in Nov. I attended the National Fox 
       hunters meet at Lexington, Ky. Old fox hunters told me that the 
       more foxes you have the more quail you have. That the fox preys 
       on 'The enemy of the quai-Th-e--feld or cotton rat) &c. Now I

       have thought over this and this is what I have observed, - up to 
       2. we had lots of foxes in here and quantities of quail. For 
       some reason, disease or otherwise, the foxes passed away in 23 
       and immediately vast hoards of cotton rats set in and the quail<-

       has been on the decline ever since and at present I am about 
       the only one that seems to showing aW increase in quail which 
       I know is due to my efforts along that line. 
 
       Now I could introduce some foxes in here but before doing so T 
       certainly would like to hear from some authority as I feel that 
       this matter has been thrashed out. So I would appreciate it very 
       much if you would give this little matter some consideration 
       and let me hear from you. In the meantime kindest personal 
       regards. 
                                  Sincerely, 
 
                                  E. M. Percy.                         J