The greatest expense is in interviewing nonrespondents. This required 20 man- 
days. Approximately 1 month of time and expense was used in administration 
and execution of the survey. This latter can be greatly reduced in the future 
once the survey becomes routine. 
The mailing costs can be reduced slightly by (1) better allocation of 
sampling, resulting from information gained from the first attempt, and (2) 
use of first-class business-reply envelopes which require payment of postage 
only for those returned. 
Preseason Publicity 
News releases explaining the survey and its purpose were prepared and 
distributed directly from the Wisconsin Conservation Department office at 
Madison (See appendix C). The best approach was through direct contacts with 
local wardens, local game managers, county agricultural extension agents, 
and representatives of the ASC. They were all helpful in getting informa- 
tion into their columns in the local papers and in relaying information in 
their contacts with farmers in the area. They were all furnished an infor- 
mational release which they could use verbatim, or in part, and were also 
given several appropriate photographs which they could offer to the papers. 
Results 
Cumulative Harvest Estimate 
Table 8 summarizes the harvest estimate data. Estimates for each 
period must be added to obtain the season total for private land. The total 
kill. from public blinds, for the unchecked State area, and corrections for 
low repart ing and unreported farms must be added to the corrected season 
total to get the final grand total kill. 
Table 10 - CUMULATIVE HARVEST ESTIMATE, MAILED SURVEY 


aa ee | for % Py See 
Period Estimate Nonresponse = Soe 100 
Oct. 7-9 2,898 1,872 | 35.4 
Oct. 10-14 5,568 3,288 40.9 
Oct. 15-16 2,543 1,616 36.8 
Private land total: 11,009 | 6,776 38.5 
Public blinds, State area, 
unreported farms, etc. 4 340 
Grand Total: . 11,116 

The grand total retrieved kill estimated from the mailed survey compares 
very favorably with that obtained from the intensive ground survey (10,555). 
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