10, 1925. 
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com- or.e* 
State of Louisiana 
DEPARTMENT O F. C ONS E « VAT 40f« 
N ew Orleans 
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July 
Mr* Wm. 0. Coon, President, 
Wisconsin's Aquatic Nurseries, 
Oshkosh, Wis. 
My dear Mr. Coon: 
You will find herewith checks from 
the department covering the duck foods purchased from your 
nurseries for the planting oampaign carried on in 1925 for 
the Russell Sage tract (Marsh Island), the State Wild Life 
Refuge, the Rockefeller Foundation Sanctuary and the Pass 
k la Loutre Public Hunting grounds under your personal su¬ 
pervision. 
At this time may I not be permitted 
to thank you and your concern for the manner in which this 
planting was done and the excellent condition of the wild 
celery tubers, Elodea, warnpee, coon-tail, spatterdook, duoks- 
meat, sago po.fweeds, pickerel plants, wild duck's millet, 
widgeon gra3s, etc., on their arrival here in the South. I 
know you Join with us in trusting that this planting, whioh, 
as you say,, is the largest and most extensive of its kind 
ever undertaken by any state or private concern, will prove 
all we hope for it. j 
The Louisiana wild waterfowl refuges 
are sanctary every winter for hosts of migratory wild duoks 
and geese of this nation and Canada and, in the oiroumstanoes, 
are of utmost importance to the sportsmen and oonservationists 
of the entire North Amerioan continent, and I believe that you 
must be gratified that your aquatic nurseries secured this 
epochal oontract whioh, I may add, was oarried out to the very 
letter. 
Commissioner Everett joins me in thank¬ 
ing you for your personal services in directing the planting 
and for many other valuable aots of cooperation rendered during 
your stay in Louisiana. 
Very trx 
SCA-EF 
SAnley C.- 
Directf^ Division of Wild Ill 
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION < 
