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BY THE WAY BIDE 
Belle Bement, Ralph Renmiel, Hattie Belter, 
Martha Belter, Minnie Naber, Henry Field, 
Myrtle CramerLizzie Miler, Frank Vogt, Anna 
Gottschaulk, Alfred Anderson, Lydia Doepke, 
Henry Moores, Tillie Hoedel, Fay Brown, 
John LeRov Myrtle Armstrong;. 
This month the following school Audubon so¬ 
cieties have been formed in Wisconsin: 
Cambridge, Miss Warner, teacher; 32 mem¬ 
bers. Kilbourn, Miss Bennett, teacher, 20 
members. Kilbourn, Miss Vogt, teacher; 32 
members. Washburn, Aliss Lang, teacher; 34 
members. Cumberland, Aliss Cliff, teacher; 43 
members. 
Teachers and pupils will please notice that 
the price of the Audubon buttons is now two 
cents instead of one. The advance in price 
is made necessary by the greater cost to the 
society. 
The following suggestions to teachers are 
made by a member of the Wisconsin Audu¬ 
bon Society: 
Allow me to remark that it seems to me 
that the time has now come to instruct the 
children to feed the birds, telling them what 
At hey will eat and Low to display it, how to 
construct bird houses and arrange drinking 
and bathing places. 
The protecting woods are so nearly gone, 
and natural fruits for birds are now so scarce 
that the birds have a hard time to live. 
The birds Lave a money value to us all be¬ 
cause they protect crops that have a money 
value. The hen and egg industry is one of 
the largest in the United States and increas¬ 
ing in proportion to the care and protection 
given. Th'e birds will also increase if people 
are hospitable to them. How many bird hous¬ 
es can the children put up. how many birds 
can they raise? 
Bird Protection in Missouri. 
Missouri has a new game and fish law which 
goes into effect June Kith. We are informed 
that ‘'only the feathers of domestic birds, 
such as the ostrich, chickens and ducks, may 
be used, while the wild birds allowed millin¬ 
ers are confined to English sparrows, hawks, 
horned owls and crows. The bill provides that 
none of the parts of birds prohibited by the 
act may bo shipped into the State.” 
The State Audubon Society. 
The annual meeting of the society will be 
May 13th, in Madison. An interesting pro¬ 
gram has been arranged, consisting of an 
outdoor excursion and evening addresses. 
Bird students all over the state should make 
an effort to attend this meeting. 
WILDCHERRY AND WILLOW INSECTS. 
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boughs behind them. Th'e larger they grow 
the more they eat and at last have to sep¬ 
arate to find food enough, then crawl down 
the tree and Lang themselves to some fence- 
rail or other suitable support, and become 
chrysalids, as do all these other butterfly 
larvae. 
There are three or four smaller butterfly- 
larvae; the sawfly and Cimbex ulmi, which 
is usually mistaken for a caterpillar, as it 
has many (too many) legs and curls up on a 
leaf or twig, in caterpiller shape. It may be 
cream white, yellow, pink, orange, or pale 
green, with a black double stripe along the 
middle of its back and a round, smooth head 
like a Chinese carved ivory one. 
There are many beetles, on willow especial¬ 
ly, and many galls containing the young of 
various fall-flies. 
Aphids do not abound on wild cherry and 
willow as some of the other trees and shrubs, 
so ants are less abundant. A few spiders will 
be found, and the treecrickets. 
In hunting for willow and wild cherry in¬ 
sects, saplings or young trees will give best 
results as a rule, possibly because it is so 
much easier to examine them, though in 
watching butterflies in their egg-laying I have 
found that they chose the younger trees, ex¬ 
cept when Vanessa antiopa took elm instead 
of willow and almost the top of the tree at 
that! 
I have not attempted to give all the insects 
on each kind of tree, for it would be too long 
a task and take too much room, but I have 
tried to give an idea of the amount of ma¬ 
terial waiting for anyone who has access to 
trees—though one tree will not give a speci¬ 
men of each kind, nor will one group of trees, 
nor even one locality probably; but I know 
one teacher in a large city who found “some¬ 
thing new every year in a back-yard near the 
school.” Caroline Gray Soule. 
