182 BIRD FRIENDS 



Junior Audubon classes. Perhaps the most im- 

 portant work the Association has been doing dur- 

 ing the last few years is its effort to interest children 

 in birds through the medium of the schools. For 

 several years the following plan has been used: In 

 the early spring circulars are sent to teachers, ex- 

 plaining the mc^thod of organizing junior Audubon 

 classes. Each child who wishes to join pays ten 

 cents as the annual dues. He receives in return ten 

 educational leaflets with the colored plate and out- 

 line of some common bird, and a bird button with 

 a small picture of a robin on it and the inscription 

 "Audubon Society." If the club numbers ten mem- 

 bers, "Bird-Lore" is sent free to the teacher for one 

 year. The leaflets alone would ordinarily cost 

 twenty cents, but the Association is able to sell 

 them at the rate of one cent, because it has a special 

 fund, contributed by a friend for carrying on this 

 work. After the club is formed, it can meet as often 

 as it wishes and carry out such programs as the 

 teacher and children may devise. Later in the sea- 

 son a letter is sent to each leader of a junior class 

 offering prizes for the best and most interesting 

 photographs of junior Audubon classes, the photo- 

 graph to be accompanied with a brief account of 

 the work of the class. 



This movement first started in the South in 1910 

 with ten thousand pupils enrolled, and since then 

 the movement has grown steadily and spread all 



