. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. 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 wou
. The Audubon annual bulletin. Birds; Birds. 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 Snelr 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 near
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