AGRONOMlY DEPA RTENT
December 26
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Mr. Aldo Leopold
Soils Building
My dear Professor Leopold:
Have just received a letter from a friend of mine con-
cerning conservation. I think you can give him just the in-
formation he needs. Please write and give him the information
he desires in his letter and anything else that you might
think of that would be of interest to him. Mr. Wiegandts
family is well known. The father received honory recognition
from the College of Agriculture. There is no family in either
Lanitowoc or Sheboygan counties more highly respected than
the Wiegand family. They have practically all attended the
Short Course in agriculture and are noted for their enter-
prising ways.
Cleveland happens to be near the place that my Grand-
father and my Father as boys did a great deal of hunting. They
would run up to Cleveland in a big madinaw boat and this par-
ticular place then was known as Centervile. At no place along
Lake lichigan would they have such great success in trapping
bear in early fall or in running deer into Lake ]-ichigan in
late fall than at Centerville. This was a dense forest at that
time and no settlers to interfere with their hunting and
trapping. They had several years of hunting and trapping be-
fore civilization reached that section of the state. They
then went further north and that is the way my forebearers
really got into Kewaunee County. They kept just ahead of the
march of civilization in their hunting and trapping and fishing.
It was in the early 50's that they were pioneering along the
lake shore at Centerville, how called Cleveland. These also
were the days of the passenger pigeon and while they didn't
pay much attention to small game, yet they could get a pot of
pigeons most any time for a change.
Vith kindest personal regards, I am
Sincerely yours,
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