Flies would not have spent such a pleasant summer 

 in the wheat gardens. 



Before the good man had finished his summer's 

 campaigning, Sanctuary notices were posted not 

 only upon their land, hut on every piece of wooded 

 land for miles around. Today every hird is safe on 

 those broad acres, and not a marauding shot is 

 heard from dawning spring to harvest time. 



So effective was the Journal's campaign for Bird 

 Sanctuaries, and so widespread the result, that the 

 trustees of the Permanent Wild Life Protection 

 Fund offered one of its valuable gold medals as a 

 special impetus to this vast and benevolent cause. 



At the close of the campaign in October, 191 8, 

 Dr. William T. Hornaday, managing director of the 

 Fund, decided that no less than four medals could 

 do justice to the efforts put forth by the Journal 

 readers. Particulars of these special awards are given 

 elsewhere in this book. 



Now that the war is over, we must remain the 

 thrifty nation that the war has taught us to be. The 

 hard experience of Farmer Jones, out Indiana way, 

 can be made to serve other Joneses everywhere, and 

 their friends and neighbors, their farmhands — and 

 even the little Joneses. 



The Jones' children might not be impressed by 

 the statement of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture that " in a single year nearly two bil- 

 lion dollars worth of crops were ruined by insects," 



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