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BY THE WAYSIDE 
BY THE WAYSIDE 
Published on the tenth of each month except 
July and August. 
The official organ of the Wisconsin, Illinois and 
Michigan Audubon Societies. 
Twenty-five cents per year Single copies 5 cents 
Contributions to By the Wayside are invited 
from all lovers of Nature and friends of the 
birds. All communications should be sent to 
Roland E. Kremers, 1720 Vilas St., Madison, 
Wis. 
Are You? 
During the summer of 1911 there oc¬ 
cur red in London a great strike of dock 
laborers, and shipping was at a stand¬ 
still. During the few weeks of the 
strike, according to official reports, 
there accumulated on the London 
docks a total of six hundred and eight¬ 
een (618) tons of bird skins and feath¬ 
ers, intended for millinery purposes. 
The skin of a Bobwhite, stuffed lightly 
with cotton, which we have before us, 
weighs less than an ounce and a half. 
Let us lie conservative and allow an 
average of five skins to the pound for 
the above shipments. This means that 
this accumulation, representing only 
part of the year’s supply of one great 
center, represented about six millions 
of creatures that, when alive, helped 
to make the world beautiful. The sim¬ 
ple question is this: Are you one of 
those who help to make such slaughter 
profitable ? 
Send in your subscription for Yol. 
XIV of By the Wayside now. 
Terms. 
It may be well at this time to recall 
to mind the terms under which By the 
Wayside may be secured. They are as 
follows : 
1. In Wisconsin, Bv the Wavside is 
sent to members only, but gratis to 
them. The classes of membership are: 
(a) Life member, paying $25.00 once. 
(b) Sustaining member, paying $5.00 
annually. 
(c) Regular member, paying $1.00 
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X. B. Only children under eighteen 
years of age may become Junior Mem- 
bers. 
2. Exceptions to (1) above: All li¬ 
braries and schools will be sent By the 
Wayside at the subscription price, 
$0.25 per annum. 
3. All parties outside of the State of 
Wisconsin will be sent By the Way- 
side at the subscription price, $0.25 
per annum. 
In order that we may continue to 
send By the Wayside gratis to our 
Junior Members, we must have more 
of them in order to offset the increased 
cost of printing. We want our Junior 
members to help us in getting them, 
and we make this offer: to anyone who 
will secure for us four members, he 
himself to be one, we will send a copy 
of each of the following leaflets: 
The Bobolink. 
The Mockingbird. 
The Sharp-shinned Hawk. 
The Bush Tit. 
The Wood Duck. 
Each of these leaflets has a beauti¬ 
fully colored plate and four pages of 
printed matter. Get your schoolmates 
to join the Wisconsin Audubon Society 
for one year at least. Remember that 
everv member receives Bv the Way- 
side free once a month during the 
school year. By the Wayside is going 
to have lots of interesting articles. 
The dues for one vear for Junior mem- 
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bership are twenty-five cents. Send 
the names of your friends who want 
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to join together with their dues, to 
Roland E. Kremers, Secretary, 
Wisconsin Audubon Society, 
1720 Vilas St., Madison, Wis. 
