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BY TEE WAYSIDE 
OUR PLANS FOR NEXT YEAR 
With this double number, By the 
Wayside ends its thirteenth year. It. 
lias not been an easy year. Editors 
have come and gone in quick succes¬ 
sion. Printer’s bills have .been in¬ 
creased, and often it was hard to see 
where the money was coming from to 
pay them. Suitable literary contribu¬ 
tions were not always easy to find. But 
it is ended; let us hope that the re¬ 
sults have been at least fairly satisfac¬ 
tory to our readers. 
Let us not forget this: By the 
Wayside is published by the Wiscon¬ 
sin State Audubon Society in the in¬ 
terests of the birds of Wisconsin. It 
brings a money profit to no one except 
the printer, and we doubt whether he 
is growing rich on it. Those who 
write its articles, and mail the copies, 
those who seek your subscription or 
membership and send you a receipt, 
they all donate their time and energy 
because tliev believe in the cause of 
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the birds. 
For next year we hope to make By 
the Wayside a better paper than it has 
ever been before. Plans for all the 
numbers have already been made in 
outline. In general, we intend to put 
into every number such material as 
will be interesting and useful at times 
after the number has been issued. We 
intend to look forward rather than 
backward. 
Every number is to be devoted in 
part to some special, seasonable fea¬ 
ture. So we expect to speak of fall 
migration in the September number, 
of winter feeding in December, of Bird 
Books in February, etc. The ‘“Bird of 
the Month” is to appear regularly. 
A\ r e also hope to insert in every num¬ 
ber an outline to serve as a suggestive 
guide to teachers and pupils in the 
study of birds in the field. Still other 
features are not yet so fully planned. 
We shall use illustrations to the great¬ 
est extent that our finances will allow. 
And that brings up the final point. 
What can be done with this paper, de¬ 
pends on the number of subscribers. 
It costs but little more to issue one 
thousand copies than to issue five hun¬ 
dred. The extra money can therefor 
be used for improving the paper. So 
you see that by getting new members 
for us, you are not only helping the 
cause of our Wisconsin birds, but also 
helping to increase the amount you re¬ 
ceive for your own money. 
So let us all join in. and get all our 
friends to join in, to make next year 
the best and most prosperous year of 
“By the Wayside” and of the Wis- 
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cousin Audubon Society. 
