STATE OF LOUISIANA 
DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION 
= New ORLEANS. 

.J EVERETT 
COMM SS:'ON ER 
July 10, 1925. 
Mre 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 campaign carried on in 1925 for 
the Russell Sage tract (Marsh Island), the State Wilda Life 
Refuge, the Rockefeller Foundation Sanctuary and the Pass 
& la Loutre Public Hunting grounds under your personal sue 
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, wampee, coon-teail, spatterdook, ducks- 
meat, sago poiweeds, pickerel plants, wild duck's millet, 
widgeon grass, etc., on their arrival here in the South. I 
know you joia with us in trusting that this planting, which, 
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 Yor it. 
The Louisiana wild waterfowl refuges 
are sanctary every winter for hosts of migratory wild ducks 
and geese of this naticn and Canada and, in the circumstances, 
are of utmost importance to the sportsmen and conservationists 
of the entire North American continent, and I believe that you 
must be gratified that your aquatic nurseries secured this 
epochal contract which, I may add, was carried out to the very 
letter. ; 
Commissioner Everett joins me in thank- 
ing you for your personal services in directing the planting 
and for meny other valuable acts cf coéperation rendered during 
your stay in Louisiane. 





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Division of Wild Li 
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