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by the wayside 
Published on the tenth of each month except July and 
A XhTofficial organ ot the Wisconsin and Illinois Audu- 
bon Societies. ___- 
Twenty-five cents per year. Single Copies 5 cents 
All^otnm.i.nications should belent to Thos. R. Moyle, 
Appleton, Wis. 
Arbor Day is approaching. Suppose 
we think of the birds this year. Plant 
some shrubbery, some that has winter 
berries like sumach, or summer fruit like 
the cherry. Don’t plant shrubs singly, 
but fairly fill a corner of the yard with a 
mass of shrubbery. That is the way 
Nature plants. Then, if some plants die 
there are others to take their place and 
the shade will keep the grass away from 
their roots and otherwise encourage and 
help them. 
Train some vine over outhouse or 
shed or even the school house. Then, 
when your work is well started watch 
vigilantly that some member of the 
school board with an ingrowing sense of 
neatness does not come along and have 
all vour work torn out. 
plant trees. The way to get something 
done is to do it yourselves. Be practical 
about it. Plant tree gardens. Put the 
last dollar you can raise into those gai- 
dens. Don’t do too much resolving, but 
do business.”— Outing. 
One of our Illinois teachers writes: 
“This year I am taking up the work once 
in two weeks for half an hour as nature 
study. With our last year’s club dues 
we bought Neltje BlanchanVBird Neigh¬ 
bors’ and this year we have decided 
upon a picture of Audubon. The letter 
in regard to the ‘C. B. Club’ interested 
me very much; we limit our office hold¬ 
ing to members of the higher class. I 
sympathize very much with the writer’s 
feelings as I have tried for three years to 
get teachers interested in the work.” 
A recent letter from the young Presi¬ 
dent of the “C. B. Club,’ is more encour¬ 
aging; her schoolmates are leaining to 
see the good in the Society and have en¬ 
joyed having the bird pictures in the 
school. 
“What is the remedy?” demands State 
Forest Commissioner W hippie of New 
York. “That is the question. We can 
not take it out in talk. We have to get 
out, every mother’s son of us that has an 
acre of land that is not good for farming 
purposes, and plant trees. It will not 
do to set land aside to the National Gov¬ 
ernment and the States as Forest Reserves 
alone. We must economize. Above all, 
we must plant trees. Germany has 
planted trees for a thousand years. All 
its forest is a planted forest. W e have 
o-ot to be practical in the same way. 
What have we to do? Go home and 
This little paper is being sent iree for 
a year by the Illinois Audubon Society, 
to one hundred teachers in Illinois. 
Postal cards from these teachers, telling 
of the receipt of the paper and of the 
help, if any, it has been in their schools, 
would be much appreciated. Address, 
Miss Mary Drummond, bee v, Spring 
Lane, Lake Forest, Illinois. 
Ring it out o’er hill and plain. 
Through the garden’s lonely bowers, 
Till the green leaves dance again, 
Till the air is sweet with flowers! 
Wake the cowslips by the rill, 
Wake the yellow daffodil! 
Robins come! 
— William W. Caldwell. 
