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Summer Reading 
BIRD GUIDE 
By CHESTER A. REED 
Vol. 1—Water birds, game birds, and 
birds of prey east of the Rockies. Vol. 
2—-Land birds east of the Rockies. 
Pocket-size hand-books each describing 
and picturing in colors more than 200 
birds. The descriptions are brief and 
clear, but comprehensive. Each volume 
is boxed, and can be had in either leather 
or cloth binding. In form and content 
they are ideal aids for the amateur bird 
student. 
Vol. 1, 240 pp. Color. Ill. Flex. Cloth, 
$1.25; Lea., $1.50. 
Vol. 2, 228 pp. Color. Ill. 
$1.25; Lea., $1.50. 
BIRD NEIGHBORS 
By NELTJE BLANCHAN 
Furnishes an introductory acquaintance 
with one hundred and fifty birds com- 
monly found in the gardens, meadows, 
and woods about our homes. For pur- 
poses of easy identification these birds 
are grouped according to family, habitat, 
season, size and color. 
234 pp. Colored Illustrations. Cloth, $4.00 
BIRDS OF AMERICA 
1,000 of our native birds described 
and pictured—over 300 species in color. 
This is the first time the subject has 
been dealt with fully in a popular work; 
and the treatment is not fragmentary— 
it is complete and systematic, with many 
interesting stories of bird life surround- 
ing the hundreds of pictures. 
882 pp. 3 Volumes. Colored Illustrations 
Flex. Cloth, 
Not sold separately. Buckram, $17.50 Set. 
GARDENETTE 
By B. F. ALBAUGH 
City Back Yard Gardening by the 
Sandwich System. A list of items grown 
by the author on four square rods of 
ground in the rear of his dwelling place. 
138 pages. Illustrated. Cloth, $1.50 
GLACIER NATIONAL PARK 
Its Trails and Treasures 
By M. E. HOLTZ and K. I. BEMIS 
Today, Glacier National Park is a tour- 
ists’ paradise traversed by many roads 
and equipped with beautiful hotels. One 
is quite safe in prophesying that this 
Alpine wonderland will eventually be to 
travellers what Niagara Falls was to an 
earlier generation, what the Yosemite, 
Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon of the 
Colorado are to the generation of today. 
This is the first comprehensively descrip- 
tive guide to Glacier Park. 
263 pages. Illustrated 
WHAT BIRD IS THAT? 
By Frank M. Chapman 
The text points out the distinguishing 
characteristic of each species, outlines 
the area which it inhabits, tells the exact 
dates at which it may be found in vari- 
ous definite localities in the eastern 
United States, describes its habits, 
haunts, song, nesting-place and eggs. 
144 pp. Colored Illustrations. Cloth, $1.50 
BOOK DEPARTMENT 
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221 W. 57th ST. 
NEW YORK, N. Y. 
Cloth, $2.50 
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the Federal Power Commission for per- 
mission to construct three dams on the 
Klamath River—one 250 feet high, 
another, twenty miles below, 90 feet 
high, and still another 20 miles below 
the latter, 90 feet high—three dams in 
a distance of forty miles. If these dams 
are constructed they will form an im- 
passible barrier to salmon and exter- 
minate this species of fish, a valuable 
food supply to the state of California. 
The run of fish in the Klamath, a 
non-navigable river, not needed for irri- 
gation, a river safe from pollution, 
thus forming one of the most wonder- 
ful natural fish refuges in all Califor- 
nia, must be saved if the Fish and 
Game Commission is to continue with 
its propagation work. Califorina needs 
more fish life, not less. We have 
watched the great migration of sea- 
run fishes in the San Joaquin, Cala- 
veras, Kern, Merced, Mokelumne, Stan- 
islaus, Tuolomne rivers, the Sacramento 
with its immense tributaries, the 
American, Feather, Yuba, McCloud 
and Pitt rivers with their 17,000 miles 
of tributaries, including many other 
streams that run to the ocean, slowly 
but surely disappear. 
Our great industries of California 
today are fisheries, farming, hydro- 
electric power and manufacturing. With 
the careful development of all these 
great industries and others, California 
will soon be made one of the safest 
business and pleasure states of our 
Union, a state that will withstand any 
slump in business or underproduction 
of any product. Our problems, how- 
ever, must be worked out as a unit; 
we must link together the industries 
of our state by admitting that the 
farmers’ interest is our interest the 
same as all other industries. 
California is an empire within itself, 
with fisheries that led the Union in 
1920, producing a pack worth $25,000,- 
000, most of which was exported. This 
great pack of salmon, sardines, tuna, 
shad and other species of our ocean 
streams, will be greater this year than 
in 1920. This is a business that be- 
longs to the people of California, a 
state resource keeping more than 14,- 
000 people at work and causing an in- 
vestment of more than $12,000,000. It 
is a self-supporting industry, costing 
the general taxpayer nothing. Your 
legislature has made laws that have 
protected and built up this natural 
business. 
We should not let any corporation or 
set of men destroy any branch of it 
until it becomes necessary. Coopera- 
tion with the California fisheries must 
be had from all other great industries 
of the state. 
It is upon the very theory of con- 
servation, of building and not tearing 
down that the members of the Fish and 
It will identify you. 
Game Commission—M. J. Connell, G. 
H. Anderson and F. M. Newbert—voted 
as a body to help the Klamath River 
Conservation League to make the Kla- 
math River a fish refuge. Get your 
name on the petition, or better still, if 
you are interested and a voter, send 
for a petition and help along this great 
work, and then vote to save for future 
generations the last run of salmon and 
rainbow trout in California. 
The time is here when the natural 
resources of our state should be con- 
served, for the attention of the world 
is upon California, both in business and 
a pleasure way. 
Of Interest to National Park 
Tourists 
S the result of the unusually light 
snow fall during the past winter 
in the High Sierra of California the 
mountain roads into Yosemite National 
Park are being opened to travel much 
earlier this year, according to an an- 
nouncement made by the Department 
of the Interior recently. 
Both the Wawona and the Big Oak 
Flat roads entering Yosemite Valley 
are now free of snow and open to motor 
travel and already park travel for this 
year has exceeded the record year of 
1623, nearly 8,000 persons having vis- 
ited the park to date. 
In view of the improved conditions, 
Federal officials in charge of the hoof 
and mouth epidemic have removed all 
temporary restrictions on park travel. 
The free public camp grounds are being 
opened as usual and no restrictions 
have been placed on fishing in any of 
the park waters. The usual free and 
unrestricted use of the trails is also 
being permitted. One of the features 
of the Yosemite season this year is the 
chain of hikers’ camps that have been 
established to make accessible to saddle 
and hiking parties the wild High Sierra 
country not penetrated by roads. 
These camps, 7 in number, are within 
easy walking distance of each other and 
afford bases for visits to many of the 
off-the-beaten path features of the 
park. Accommodations in these camps 
are of the simplest character, dormi- 
tory tents being provided for men and 
for women with cots and _ blankets. 
Meals are served camp style in dining 
tents. Lodging and meals are 75 cents 
each. A circuit of the chain of camps 
from Yosemite Valley totals 78 miles, 
not including side trips. 
The camps and lodges in Yosemite 
Valley are now open. The Tioga Pass 
route between Yosemite Valley and 
Lake Tahoe, one of the greatest moun- 
tain motor trips in the West, opens 
about the middle of July. 
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