BY THE WAYSIDE 
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Suggestions to Teachers 
Prepare a food shelf or tie pieces of 
suet to branches. Keep a list of the 
birds observed to visit your feeding 
places and the food chosen, in case a 
variety is offered. Read Whittier’s 
Snow Bound. Have the pupils tell or 
write of some bird or of some incident 
connected with birds which they have 
observed in fall. Ask the pupils to 
look for seeds, nuts, berries, and all 
other things that might serve for bird 
food in winter. 
Do all trees lose their leaves in fall? 
The evergreens and some oaks retain 
them and thereby furnish shelter to 
certain birds. Mice are favorite food 
of certain owls and hawks; try to lo- 
cate their runways and tunnels in the 
snow. What do mice feed on? What 
other animals are found in your local¬ 
ity in fall and winter. 
We have the following interesting 
sketch from abroad from our presi¬ 
dent, Professor Wagner. It is instruc¬ 
tive to note that though different na¬ 
tions may take different methods, the 
end is often the same. So in Germany 
we find a healthy, aggressive move¬ 
ment for the protection of nature in 
all her forms,—Ed. 
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Cne way for Raising Funds 
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One great and everlasting problem 
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for those who are fighting for the wel¬ 
fare of the birds, is that of securing 
the funds that are always necessary 
for such work. There are probably 
plenty of people who would aid if they 
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only understood the need. But how to 
find these people, and how to make 
them understand the need, that is a 
real problem. A final and ideal solu¬ 
tion has yet to be found. 
To Americans a lottery is a forbid¬ 
den and a criminal practice, and 
rightly so. But in Germany it is quite 
otherwise. In Bavaria for instance, a 
lottery is the normal method of raising 
money for any philanthropic purpose. 
The lottery is permitted for no other 
purpose, and each project must obtain 
a government permit, and must be car¬ 
ried on in a definitely prescribed way. 
If any man buys a ticket, he can, if he 
has any understanding of mathematics, 
figure out for himself what chance lie 
has of winning anything, and what 
chance to win the Grand Prize which 
may be a very large sum of money. 
In both cases the chance is very slim, 
as we shall see. 
The Bavarian society for the protec¬ 
tion of birds is just now raising a large 
sum of money for this purpose, and 
every sign board in Muenich contains 
large yellow placards announcing this 
fact. The drawing will take place 
next week (November 6). There are 
180,000 tickets to sell, but probably 
not all will be sold. In that case 
some of the prizes may fall on unsold 
tickets, to the further profit of the So¬ 
ciety. The tickets sell for about twen¬ 
ty-five cents each, or about forty-five 
thousand dollars in all. There are 
sixty-seven hundred prizes in all, or 
about one for every twenty-nine tick¬ 
ets. The chief prize is five thousand 
dollars. Most of the prizes are only 
seventy-five cents each. It is easy to 
see that the chances for winning any¬ 
thing are very slim. It seems an odd 
way to raise money. Let us hope that 
the officers of the Wisconsin Audubon 
Society may never have to wish for the 
possibility of such a scheme for them. 
