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shaped legislative activities that any attempt to secure laws for, or against 

 "so small a matter as wild life" would have been in vain. 



An influential class of Ohio sportsmen now favor having the state game laws 

 conform to the Federal laws. This sentiment is gaining strength, and the former 

 idea that Washington has no right to interfere with, or control Ohio's sporting 

 proclivities is losing ground. 



The National Association, through its years of persistent effort, is the out- 

 standing influence that is bringing about this reasonable attitude of Federal 

 control among all. classes. The Educational Leaflets and the Junior Audubon 

 enthusiasm invariably find their way from the school to the home, and parents 

 are hearing so much about "not killing birds," and what would happen "if 

 there were no birds," that the influence of these negative suggestions is finally 

 crystallizing into a public opinion that there should be an able national control 

 over bird welfare. This, likely, is, to the officers of the Association, an un- 

 expected outcome of the Junior work. They probably never dreamed that 

 its influence would be so far-reaching, yet it is wholly in keeping with the spirit 

 of the Association's aims and purposes, and an effect that can, no doubt, be 

 found in all states where the Junior classes have been made a strong feature. 



The Junior work in Ohio suffered last winter through the closing of the 

 schools during the influenza epidemic. Every school in the state was affected. 

 Three-fourths were closed for a period of from four to thirteen weeks. Schools 

 began to close the first of October, and the last to be affected did not open 

 until March. Through this period your agent could do little more than mark 

 time. 



During the summer your agent worked as a special instructor in numerous 

 Ohio Teachers' Institutes. This consisted in showing teachers that bird-study 

 has a true educational value, and how to correlate the subject with certain 

 subjects of the regular curriculum. The idea was to stimulate the organization 

 of Junior classes during the present school year. The officers of the Institutes 

 understood this, and likewise the teachers, and there should be an advancing 

 of the Association's work as a result. 



Throughout the year your agent has kept up the usual publicity through the 

 newspapers, and given many lectures. 



REPORT OF WINTHROP PACKARD, FIELD AGENT FOR 

 MASSACHUSETTS 



The Massachusetts office of the National Association of Audubon Societies 

 was fortunate last May in receiving additional funds for the Junior work in 

 this state. A three-weeks' whirlwind campaign was instituted, a general appeal 

 to teachers by mail, accompanied by personal work among the schools by three 

 skilled organizers. Results were excellent and immediate. Moreover, the im- 

 pulse given lasted long after the campaign was finished. Massachusetts, 



