gempling Procedures 
Farmers, club members, or lessees within the zones wer 
e contacted 
during September to secure their cooperation in maintaining a daily kill 
record on lands they controlled. Forms (appendix F) were distributed to 
all cooperators, and arrangements were made for picking u 
regular intervals. Pp ng up reports at 
Sampling intensity was intended to be proportional to the i 
mia . ortance 
of zones to the anticipated kill. Cooperation was therefore Siena within 
zones as follows: 
Zone 1: Contacted ALL farms. 
Zone 2: Contacted every 5th farm. 
Zone 3: Contacted every 10th farm. 
Zone 4: Planned on contacting every 20th 
farm if needed; or more intensively 
if "hot spots" developed. 
If a farmer was contacted who did not wish to cooperate, the next farm 
was taken in order. For example, if farmer No. 10 in zone 3 would not 
cooperate, he was listed as a "noncooperator" for record purposes, but farmer 
No. 11 was contacted instead. However, in making the next jump, only nine 
farms were bypassed, so that farm No. 20 was next in order to keep the pat- 
“Soe every 10th farm constant. The sample principle applied to zones 2 
and 4. 
To give some idea of the coverage required, an examination of county 
plat maps indicated that there were: 
Zone 1: 120 farms 120 samples planned 
Zone 2: 400 farms 80 samples planned 
zone 3: 900 farms _90 samples planned 
Total sample: 290 
This sampling system is technically systematic. However, the pattern 
of the goose flight varies from day to day with weather conditions, adding 
an element of randomness. Another element of randomness is the fact that 
each sector man chose his own route and starting point within his sector. 
Ideally, starting points should have been established in each sector by 
random choice and assigned to the sector man. However, for our purpose, 
this sample will be treated as a random sample. 
Collection of Forms from Cooperators 
Information obtained during the 1959 hunting season was used as the 
basis for the pick-up schedule planned in 1960. The plan provided for 
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