Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 449 



abandoned. It was then decided to conduct a vigorous campaign, by corre- 

 spondence, for new members. Tliis was so successfully carried out that the 

 membership was more than tripled between February and July. State game- 

 wardens were especially urged to join, and about twenty became members. 

 The larger part of the more than a thousand letters sent out from the ofi&ce 

 during the year were written during this campaign. This increased enroll- 

 ment made our Society feel so rich that it took a membership in the National 

 Association. 



The Upper Peninsula having never been visited by Audubon workers, the 

 president was very glad to respond to an invitation in June from a generous 

 and devoted bird- lover, Mrs. A. S. Putman, of Manistique, to do some work 

 in her city with all expenses paid. Talks were given in all the schools there, and 

 at other organizations, and in the nearby villages. The Marquette Normal 

 School was then visited, and the classes in nature-study and agriculture were 

 addressed on the value of birds to agriculture. Twenty lectures were given in 

 this new territory, and thus more than 2,500 persons were reached with the 

 message. 



Exhibits of bird-houses, cat-guards, feeding-devices, charts, pictures, and 

 literature were placed at all the large state meetings of teachers, farmers, etc., 

 as well as at county and state fairs. Cat-guards were especially demonstrated 

 before the Wild Life Conservation Association at Saginaw, where several 

 thousand persons visited the Audubon booth every day. 'Cat Tale' circulars, 

 calling attention to the destruction of birds by cats, were distributed in great 

 numbers — in fact about 10,000 of these circulars have been scattered about 

 the state the past year — and the Society hopes by this means to educate the 

 public to the need of a cat-license law, and its proper enforcement. 



Farmers are learning to appreciate their bird-friends, and are forming Audu- 

 bon clubs auxiliary to their own organizations. The president was asked to 

 speak before the lecturers of the State Grange at its annual meeting at Ann 

 Arbor last December; and when she stopped at the expiration of her allotted 

 twenty minutes a vigorous protest arose, and a request was made that the 

 speaker be given time to use the whole sixty slides and give the entire lecture 

 at the main meeting in the auditorium that evening. Here she was greeted by 

 3,000 farmers — the largest and one of the most enthusiastic audiences before 

 whom she has ever spoken. 



The Star Audubon Club of Three Rivers, had a 'tag day' to raise money to 

 carry on the work in their community. The tags were pretty paper birds made 

 by the boys and girls of the Club. 



Telegrams and letters were sent to our Congressmen and Senators asking 

 them to work and vote for the measure to sustain the Migratory Bird Law 

 and for the ratification of the treaty between Great Britain and the United 

 States for the enforcement of this law in our country and in Canada. Through 

 the columns of the Audubon Department of The Michigan Sportsman we have 



