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New Audubon Junior Kits Available 
THE NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY has just issued a new sample kit of 
the actual materials used by leaders of Audubon Junior Clubs. These kits 
are available free to scout leaders, teachers, youth leaders, camp counselors, 
and others in a position to organize Audubon Junior Clubs among the 
children in their community. Each kit contains examples of the Junior 
Audubon Notebook, cutouts, colored drawings, a nature magazine, and 
other materials that will actually be used by the young members. 
The Illinois Audubon Society has a supply of folders on hand explain- 
ing the program and purposes of the Audubon Junior Clubs. These folders 
may be picked up at the book desk at our Audubon Screen Tours at the 
Chicago Museum of Natural History, or will be mailed if you address a 
postcard request to your Editor. The “Sample Kit for Audubon Junior 
Clubs” may be obtained by writing to the National Audubon Society, 1130 
Fifth Avenue, New York 28, N. Y. You will find that an Audubon Junior 
Club is a wonderful way to develop an interest in nature in the children 
of your neighborhood — and that, in stimulating their interest, you will 
reap unexpected benefits in the form of a new enthusiasm for our wild life. 
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Birds, Bees and Farming 
By GORDON A. BELL 
SINCE A Boy, I have liked birds and keep up three large martin houses 
and many wren houses, both here at home and at my two farms. As an 
active farmer, I believe firmly that birds and game thrive with good farm 
practices. On my 160 acre farm (nearer Morris than Mazon, Illinois), I 
have 11,000 multiflora rose bushes, all planted since 1949. Several clumps 
were planted on otherwise worthless land, and today nothing but a bull- 
dozer will penetrate the thickets. By good, sound farming, with the help 
of sweet clover and soil conservation practices, I have increased my corn 
yields from an average of three bushels to 100 bushels per acre during 
the past three years. I have more rabbits, quail, and pheasants, besides 
native song birds, on this farm than on any similar area I know of. I 
did nothing for any of these species except provide cover with good farming. 
My other farm, 146 acres, is on the north bank of the Illinois river, 
four miles west of Morris. On that farm there is plenty of natural cover. 
During October, great numbers of robins stop to feed and rest for a few 
days, eating the multiflora rose seeds. The ‘Northern Honey” which I sell 
in great quantities to the Chicago market, comes from 200 colonies of 
bees which thrive on the sweet clover and roses. I find that one needs to 
do very little for birds and game except that which goes naturally with 
profitable farming. 
Mazon, Illinois 
