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BY THE WAYSIDE 
for the organization meeting at the beginning 
of the school year, which meeting shall not be 
deferred later than two months. 
Sec. 11. Each member shall pay an initia¬ 
tion fee of five cents, for the purpose of defray¬ 
ing necessary expenses. 
Sec. 12. In case of the need of money, each 
member shall be taxed according to the amount 
needed, but the amount with the purpose of 
such fund shall have been agreed upon by a 
two-thirds majority of the members. 
Article II. 
Section 1. In order to provide means of pro¬ 
tection for our feathered songsters, members 
are expected to manifest their interest by the 
erection of bird-houses, etc., for the same. 
See. 2. Any member of this society who has 
been known to violate its rules by the destruc¬ 
tion of either bird life or anything pertaining 
thereto, shall for the first offense be subject to 
a fine or not less than 10c nor more than 25c; 
and for the second offense of a similar nature, 
the privilege of voting shall be withheld. If 
the offence is committed a third time, he or 
she shall cease to be a member of the society. 
Sec. 3. Violation of the rules of the Audu¬ 
bon Society shall consist of the destruction of 
the life of a wild bird, directly or indirectly; 
of its eggs or nest, or of giving encouragement 
to the same, either in the ways above indicated 
or for purpo-es of self decoration. 
Sec. 4. The banner color for tne Chilton 
Branch of the Audubon Society shall be navy 
blue. 
S'ec. 5. Not less than two songs, original 
with the Chilton Audubon Society, shall be 
adopted and used by the same, at all regular 
meetings or whenea’er the same shall desire to 
make manifestation of its popularity. 
Sec. 6. This association shall further demon¬ 
strate its fraternal feelings by means of not less 
than three different yells, to be agreed upon by 
the association. 
OFFICERS. 
President. Edwin Rollmann; vice-president, 
Newell Nugent; treasurer. Irwin Roecker; 
secretay, Mildred Diedrich; sergeant-at-arms, 
Ceorge Oriem. 
Boardman, Wis., Feb. 5, 1904. 
Dear Mrs. Peckiiam. —There were five jun¬ 
tos in our chicken coop to-day. I tried to catch 
one but could not. I put some bread in a hole 
in the chicken coop. We threw out a lot of 
bread for them to eat. We watch them down 
to the school house. The junco is a pretty 
little bird. We caught one in our chicken coop 
to see what color it was. The junco is gray 
on the top of his head, and his wings art* 
brown, his eyes are black, and on his breast 
is white. He is about six inches long, his legs 
are one inch long, he has four toes, his bill is 
a half inch long. The juncos are around all 
winter. The trees are just full of juncos. I 
wish 1 could tame one but they will die before 
they get tame. When we throw out something 
they will come and eat it. They sing chick- 
a-dee-dee. We saw a flock of juncos flying 
around the barn and shed. Our hired man 
tried to shoot some but he could not. But 
one day he shot one. We know when it’s go¬ 
ing to snow; there are flocks flying around; 
we call them snow birds. Papa does not like 
the juncos. He kills them when he gets a 
chance. My cousin knocked their nest down 
and my uncle put it in a pail and hung it up. 
It had some little birds in. 
Elsie Simon, age 11. 
The junco that Elsie caught must have been 
a female, as it had brownish wings. It is not 
the breast but the belly that is white, and it^ 
note is more like chew-chew than chick-a-dee- 
dce. Why does “papa” dislike the juncos? 
Why does he kill them when he gets a chance? 
Is it because they eat the food that is given to 
the chickens? But why does he give food to 
the chickens? Is it not because they put money 
into l\is pocket, or food into the hungry little 
mouths of Elsie and Lauretta? If that be the 
reason he ought to be glad to feed the juncos 
too, for they do exactly the same thing, and 
when he is kind to them he is kind to himself. 
This is a fact, not a fairy tale, for Mr. Palmer 
at Washington has found that they eat large 
quantities of ants, cutworms, weevils, leaf¬ 
eating beetles, and grasshoppers, besides the 
seeds of such weeds as pigweed, chickweed. 
knotgrass and foxtail, with a great deal of 
ragweed. We suspect that if the junco could 
brine in a bill for “services rendered” to Elsie’s 
papa, he would find that the food they pick up 
in the barnyard is a very small recompense for 
the work they do. 
