ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 7 
This acreage, with the 3,000,000 acres of farm woodlands, 
would give us a total of six million acres of forest land, which 
should be kept in productive condition. Results obtained by the 
forest survey party in southern Illinois already show that in the 
case of the hill timber this is largely a matter of fire protection— 
this is about all that stands between us and a second crop of tim- 
ber. Surely one-sixth of our total area devoted to timber is not 
too much—it is very much lower than advocated by European 
experts, who would raise the figure to twenty per cent of the 
total land area in order to maintain our forest industries and 
give us the necessary amount of protection forest. 
This is a vision which we believe is not incommensurate with 
the ambitions of those who have tried for so long to impress up- 
on the state the importance of this valuable resource. Many 
signs point to an awakening interest in forestry as a_ great 
state and national question. The organization of a forestry com- 
mittee by the Union League Club of Chicago and the efforts of 
that committee to organize a Central States Forestry League 
are most encouraging, and their efforts in the direction of pub- 
licity and co-ordination of all interested in this question should 
bring results, slow as progress sometimes seems to be. The aver- 
age legislator is not opposed to progressive forestry legislation— 
he is simply uninformed as to the true condition of things, and 
it is the business of a department which is entirely non-politi- 
cal, such as the Natural History Survey of the state, to bring 
together this information so that he can weigh and consider it. 
R. B. MILLER, State Forester 
Seven Years of a Food Shelf 
For seven years I have had a food shelf just outside my 
study window, in the leafy town of Lake Forest (Lake County), 
on which has been kept constantly sunflower seed, hemp seed, 
millet seed and bread crumbs, with suet nearby. <A _ careful 
record has been kept of the birds that have visited it, and the 

Photo by George Roberts Sys 
HAVING THEIR PICTURE TAKEN THROUGH THE WINDOW DOES NOT EMBARRASS 
THE REGULAR BOARDERS 
results are here tabulated, not by way of presenting any record 
of success but rather as a proof that to many who cannot easily 
