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Another, "My children were so grateful to you for your talk of last week. They 

 can hardly wait for you to send the leaflets and pins." 



After a lecture in one of the city schools a delegation of five boys came up 

 and after shaking hands and thanking me invited me to come to their rooms to 

 see an exhibition of bird pictures they had drawn. They also showed, with great 

 pride, three Audubon Bird Charts on the wall which they told me had been 

 purchased with the dues they paid in their Current Topic Club. Later one of 

 these boys said, "I have found out that the Audubon charts have helped our 

 room wonderfully well, and you deserve credit and thanks for your fine lecture." 

 In August the following appeal came from a sixth grade boy. "I have moved 

 so I won't be in connection with the rest of my Audubon class. I will be all 

 alone and won't know what to do. If you can give me a plan how to be in 

 connection with them I shall be thankful." 



Opportunities were given me to present our work at some of the teachers' 

 conventions, parent-teacher associations, and normal school classes. An appeal 

 to the foreigner to protect the birds, prepared by me in the form of a bulletin, 

 was used by the State Board of Education in the evening schools of the state. 

 While in Pennsylvania this summer it was gratifying to learn that a bit of 

 work I did there last summer had resulted in the formation of several new 

 Audubon Classes. During my stay I was asked to assist the Buck Hill Nature 

 Club with an exhibit they had been invited to make at Franklin, Pa. Marked 

 interest was displayed in our booth by adults and children and many were 

 eager to join the Junior Audubon Society. 



REPORT OF ARTHUR H. NORTON, FIELD AGENT 

 FOR MAINE 



The routine of furnishing information concerning the feeding, methods of 

 attracting, and identification of birds has been taken care of as usual. Frequent 

 talks on various subjects and various phases of these subjects have been made 

 at different points in the state. Through correspondence, personal interviews, 

 telephone messages, and otherwise, your agent has cooperated with officers 

 and members of various clubs, as well as many individual workers. Through 

 a peculiar combination of conditions a large natural feeding-ground for wild 

 Ducks exists within the city limits of Portland. As the birds here are, of course, 

 protected, it has become the winter home of several thousand Black Ducks. 

 During the past .winter the weather became very severe. Thick ice covered 

 the waters of Casco Bay for many miles, shutting off entirely the food for Black 

 Ducks from late January to February 10. About 3,000 Ducks assembled in 

 their Portland sanctuary. Profiting by past experience, we effected an organiza- 

 tion to handle the situation. Funds were provided and your local warden. 

 George E. Cushman, assumed the duties of feeder of the Ducks over a period 

 of three weeks. The iloek was thus saved from starvation. 



