In further report of Washington College, Earl Fry finds 
that Mr. H.H. House, in charge of physical educationis an ardent 
sportsman and is interested in a game restoration program because 
it affects his department by taking the men into the field. This 
is possibly a new line of approach. 
             In a discussion with two of the faculty at State College 
Earl told them cthe study which you advised to be made in Wisconsin 
on the relative food values of certain seeds and how certain con- 
ditions might affect the increase or decrease of pheasants. Earl 
spoke of the Willamette Valley in Oregon as a good example of how 
pheasants apparently increased for a period of several years and then 
practically disappeared. The men thought you were probably on the 
right track for they advised that they knew that the Willamette Valley 
was lacking in certain mineral qualities and that it has been hard to 
successfully raise stock in that district for that reason. "They 
believed that this district would offer a splendid opportunity to 
study the theory that Leopold told me of.* 
 
 
                                Most sincerely yours, 
 
 
                                       L. W.T. Waller, Jr. 
                                       Director of Conservation. 
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