Che Amateur Sportsman Co., 
331 MADISON AVENUE 
BOX 20, GRAND CENTRAL STATION P. O, 
TELEPHONE 8818 MURRAY HILL 
NEW YORK, N. Y., July Btn... 

Mr. William Brewster, 
149, Brattle Street, 
Cambridge, Mass. 
Dear Mr. Brewster, 
I regret that you cannot promise definitely to write 
something for us while you are in England. If you find that you 
can conveniently undertake it, I believe the most interesting 
subjects would be, the increase of partridges, grouse, woodcock and 
other game reared in a wild state, including of course the plovers 
and other shore‘ birds. 
I feel quite sure I understand why Captain Oates and 
others are successful in increasing the wild ducks and pheasants by 
hand rearing. It is simply a poultry-yard proposition, and no-one 
should have any doubt butthat the same thing can be done in America 
on @ very large scale. 50,000 Pekin ducks are now produced 
annually by one man on Long Island for the market, and the same 
method would produce 30,000 mallard or dusky ducks, so that there is 
no mystery about this matter. 
I am satisfied the wild nesting game increases s imply 
because it is properly looked after and increased before it is 
destroyed. While I believe that the total destruction due to 
vermin is large, I believe the losses due to bad weather at the 
nesting time and in the winter, are equally fatal checks, and that 
where these matters are all attended to by a keeper, and the game is 

