N1ov. 7, 1932 
 
 
Dr. Paul L. frrington 
Iowa State College 
Ag s, Iowa 
 
Dear Paul: 
 
A hurried visit to town from field work on demonstrations for the Wisconsin

Commission makes me unable to do Justice to your request for a criticisn

of the two papers. I have read them only hurriedly and what I have to say

consists only of snap impressions. 
 
The extension bulletin is, I think, a useful resue of moot questions which

will enlighten the conservationists already equipped with some concept 
of the isgaes at stake. It will be useful, for instance, to ornithologists,

biology teachers, the most advanced group of sport sen, and the upper 
strata of farm leaders. 
 
It does not, however, create I cocet in the minds of less educated poeo-cle.

To do this is more properly the field of the Handbook. I think your 
extension bulletin ýlli perform a comixplaen tary function, the Handbook,

when finally perfected, servin, for the other part. 
 
It is logical, I thin7, that you, with y-ur general knowledge of quail but

still limited knowledge of Iowa, should first write the kind of a paper 
which you have written.  I think, though, that the other job is even more

important, and as your Ikowledge of local detail increases, that you will

be able to perfect the necessarily crude effort represented by the present

Handbook. 
 
I enjoyed reading the account of Mrs. Stewart's quail. Your observations

on the inclusion of a new covey are especially valuable. Nobody but 
Stoddard has so far thrown any lipht on this matter. 
 
It is only with considerable trepidation that I attempt to coment on 
your letter to Dr. Boone. It is so easy to agree or disagree about Tords,

when the real question is actions, which may or may not be accurately 
portrayed by those ,ords. 
 
First of all, I can't follow your distinction between "research"
and 
"demonstration areas." Constant observation of these areas offers
a chance 
to test conclusions otherwise supported only by inference or assumed 
correlations, and hence seems to me to be research of a higher order 
than one could possibly do without them. Of course to co        time with

the purely administrative aspects of these areas is another matter.