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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 Yilas St., Madison, 
Wis. 
Through an oversight the names of 
the officers elected at the Annual Meet¬ 
ing have not yet been published. The 
following were elected: 
President—Prof. George Wagner. 
First Vice Pres.—Mr. 1. N. Mitchell. 
Second Vice Pres.—Mr. C. E. Brown. 
Secretary-Treasurer—Mr. R. E. Kre- 
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liters. 
Directors—Prof. W. S. Marshall, 
Prof. M. F. Guyer, Mr. F. S. Branden- 
burg, Mr. A. C. Burrill, Miss Ruth 
Chase, Miss Katherine Allen. 
WINTER FEEDING. 
Would you like to have the birds 
that remain over winter pay you visits 
almost every day? Then you must do 
something to attract them to your 
yard. A way to accomplish this has 
been found out. You have but to of¬ 
fer food, and the birds, finding it 
easier to partake of your bounty, come 
to get a part of their food-supply in 
your yard. We said that the birds get 
a part of their sustenance from you for 
it is a striking fact that most birds if 
not all spend their time in their usual 
occupation of gleaning weed-seeds or 
destroying insects. You may ask 
“what is the need then of feeding the 
birds if they get the most of their food 
through their own efforts.” You will 
soon learn that it is not in the ordi¬ 
nary winter weather that our native 
birds rely upon your bounty, and it is 
to their credit that they do not. But 
there come times of extreme cold, of 
sleet-storms, or of heavy snow-fall that 
render the finding of food very diffi¬ 
cult, if not impossible; do not fail the 
birds then, renew vour offered food- 
supply and you will save many a feath¬ 
ered friend from death by cold and 
starvation, for they forget not where 
they have oft before stopped to eat a 
morsel of suet or grain. And so you 
will often have the pleasant satisfac¬ 
tion of knowing that you have spared 
some birds the necessity of going to 
bed hungry that night. And then, too, 
the very presence of the birds repays 
all your little expense and labor. 
We most sincerely urge our readers 
to feed the birds this winter. Of course 
there must be birds in the vicinity be¬ 
fore they can be attracted, but almost 
every locality has its downy or chick- 
adee. While it is almost never too late 
to begin, now is the time to start. In 
fact several weeks ago was none too 
early. For further information we 
would refer our readers to Mr. G. II. 
Trafton’s book “Methods of Attract¬ 
ing Birds”; it is a book that might 
well be in every library, home, school, 
and public. Let us urge you once more 
to feed the birds this winter and to 
feed them regularly. 
In order to carry Audubon work 
farther, we must have more regular 
members to back us. All persons avIio 
contribute the sum of one dollar annu¬ 
ally are enrolled as regular members. 
