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'Resolution for Game and Bird Refuge.' This 

 resolution is a request by a majority of the town 

 board to set aside the land specified in the 

 original petition as a game and bird refuge. It 

 can either be passed at a meeting of the town 

 board or signed by a majority of the board, which 

 includes the supervisor, two justices of the peace, 

 and the town clerk. There has never, so far as 

 the writer's experience goes, been any difficulty 

 in securing the signatures of a majority of the 

 town board to such a petition and the method 

 has the practical advantage of enlisting the town 

 officers in the sanctuary project. After Form 

 37 is signed it is sent to the Conservation Com- 

 mission for ratification and the petitioners may 

 feel certain that it will be favorably acted upon. 



"Under these various provisions of the New 

 York Law there is not a town in the state of 

 New York which cannot have its bird sanctu- 

 ary. All that is necessary is a little educational 

 work to arouse interest, the formation of a club 

 to insure the proper care of the sanctuary and 

 afterwards faithfully sustained work. The re- 

 ward will be, to the workers, knowledge of work 

 well done, and to the community a marked 

 increase in the number of birds, with the re- 

 sult and effect of better crops on farms and in 

 gardens, fewer diseased and dead trees in the 



