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THE GUIDE TO NATURE. 



to try this economical and artistic mode 

 of trimming their spring and summer 

 hats. 



"Needless to say it is very advisable 

 to select flowers of a sort and condition 

 to last well, and if their natural foliage 

 is of a kind that fades quickly, there is 

 plenty of greenery which may be mixed 

 with the blooms and form an effective 

 mounting." 



The recently issued annual report of 

 the Society shows that the plan has been 

 very carefully thought out. A year ago 

 the organization engaged Professor 

 Morton J. Elrod, of Missoula, to spend 

 the summer of 1907 in making a thor- 

 ough examination of the Flathead Res- 

 ervation, which now is being thrown 



open to settlement, and 



site for a national bison range. 



recommend a 

 Profes- 



SEPARATING THE SELECTED STOCK FROM THE MAIN HERD. 

 " A chute, fifty feet in length, had been erected between the two main corrals fronting the Buffalo 

 House, communicating with both and terminating with a very ingenious sliding iron gate. Against 

 this gate the crates were placed. The herd of fifteen was driven into the north corral, and the ani- 

 mals, one at a time, liberated into the chute." 



Courtesy of the New York Zoological- Society. 



SAVING THE BISON. 



Through a bill recently introduced in 

 Congress by Senator Joseph M. Dixon, 

 of Montana, the American Bison Soci- 

 ety has formally called upon the govern- 

 ment to establish a national herd of bison 

 on the Flathead Indian Reservation, in 

 northwestern Montana. The Society 

 offers a nucleus herd as a gift, if Con- 

 gress will provide the land for a range, 

 and fence it in. 



sor Elrod's report is printed in full in 

 the Society's annual volume, and upon 

 it is based the plan now before Con- 



gress. 



Unfortunately the Society came into 

 existence just one year too late to pre- 

 vent the sale and removal to Canada of 

 the great Pablo-Allard bison herd, which 

 had grown up on the Flathead Reser- 

 vation from 30 animals to a total to-day 



