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This acreage, with the 3,000,000 acres of farm woodlands, 

 would give us a total of six million acres of forest land, which 

 should be kept in productive condition. Results obtained by the 

 forest survey party in southern Illinois already show that in the 

 case of the hill timber this is largely a matter of fire protection — 

 this is about all that stands between us and a second crop of tim- 

 ber. Surely one-sixth of our total area devoted to timber is not 

 too much — it is very much lower than advocated by European 

 experts, who would raise the figure to twenty per cent of the 

 total land area in order to maintain our forest industries and 

 give us the necessary amount of protection forest. 



This is a vision which we believe is not incommensurate with 

 the ambitions of those who have tried for so long to impress up- 

 on the state the importance of this valuable resource. Many 

 signs point to an awakening interest in forestry as a great 

 state and national question. The organization of a forestry com- 

 mittee by the Union League Club of Chicago and the efforts of 

 that committee to organize a Central States Forestry League 

 are most encouraging, and their efforts in the direction of pub- 

 licity and co-ordination of all interested in this question should 

 bring results, slow as progress sometimes seems to be. The aver- 

 age legislator is not opposed to progressive forestry legislation — 

 he is simply uninformed as to the true, condition of things, and 

 it is the business of a department which is entirely non-politi- 

 cal, such as the Natural History Survey of the state, to bring 

 together this information so that he can weigh and consider it. 



R. B. MILLER, State Forester 



Seven Years of a Food Snelr 



For seven years I have had a food shelf just outside my 

 study window, in the leafy town of Lake Forest (Lake County), 

 on which has been kept constantly sunflower seed, hemp seed, 

 millet seed and bread crumbs, with suet nearby. A careful 

 record has been kept of the birds that have visited it, and the 



Photo by George Roberts 

 HAVING THEIR PICTURE TAKEN THROUGH THE WINDOW DOES NOT EMBARRASS 



THE REGULAR BOARDERS 



results are here tabulated, not by way of presenting any record 

 of success but rather as a proof that to many w T ho cannot easily 



