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FEEDERS AND NATURAL PLANTINGS ATTRACT MANY BIRDS 
Hi! Betty Groth. Your idea for ‘birds in the yard’ is marvelous, since there seem to be entirely different species in other 
areas of the state. With six feeders, three bird baths an 
d a pond, as well as shrubs with berries for the birds, we have had a 
rewarding year here in our yard in Galesburg. The following (*) nested here and raised up to three families — and that as late 
as September for Robins and Cardinals: 
* Catbirds 
* Cardinals 
* Brown Thrashers Blue Jays 
100 Cedar Waxwings Junco 
Downy Woodpeckers * European Tree Sparrows 
* Robins Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 
Red-breasted Nuthatch Chickadees 
Myrtle Warblers * Purple Grackles 
Yellow-throats 
White-crowned Sparrows 
Yellow Warblers 
White-throated Sparrows 
Black and White Warblers * English Sparrow (52) 
Blue-winged Warblers * Mourning Doves 
Nashville Warblers . Starling (imitating Quail) 
Blackpoll Warblers Veery 
Connecticut Warblers Hummingbirds 
* Wrens Wood Thrush 
My husband, Clark, made 25 suet sticks from small branches of white-oak firewood, which 
spring. | am questioning whether the beef suet if contaminated with DDT, and whether we 
Anybody know? 
we sold at a carnival here last 
should feed it to the birds? 
Alice Palmer 
Readers are invited to report their observations and suggestions on feeding birds to the Newsletter. 
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SECOND PRAIRIE CONFERENCE HELD IN WISCONSIN 
Editor’s Note — 
About 250 Scientists and laymen attended the 2nd Midwest P 
September, representing all the prairie states. Planting methods, the use of fire, interdependent arachnids (spiders), forbs, 
ground squirrels, etc. were subject of indepth study. The use of prairie planting in Landscape Atchitecture was illustrated by 
David Knapp, Architect. Illinois, which was one 75% prairie, has now only a few small remnants. Here and there along the 
roadsides one may see tufts, and we suffer for having lost such beauty. 
rairie Conference at the University of Wisconsin: in 
My interest was enlarged by the possibility of planting our highways with prairie grass — many species of which 
(dropseed, needlegrass, fox grass, white grass, etc.) grow low to the ground. They would not require mowing, spraying or 
maintenance of any sort — think what a saving of funds, and how beautiful as well! | have kept in touch with the State 
Highway Department and the Landscape Architect's office, and last spring two of their men came to Galesburg 
the field, inspecting our virgin prairie remnant and a re-constructed prairie owned by Knox College. Also, our Sta 
Department, when | notified them of the Conference, sent several of their Landscape Architects to the Co 
Wisconsin. Letters to their chief, Mr. Cellini, will encourage the program; and more public education is needed. 
for a day in 
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nference in 
Here in Galesburg, it is hoped that we will sometime have a small planting of remnant prairie at Carl Sandburg’s 
birthplace. | have twice been a delegate to the Prairie Conference and | express my great thanks to IAS for the marvelous 
experience. The highlight of the Wisconsin trip was a visit to their re-constructed prairie in the Arboretum, and to Chiwaukee 
Prairie. 
Alice Palmer, Chairman 
State Affairs Committee 



































