The Audubon Societies 



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REPORT OF JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASSES 



Despite all the distracting influences the 

 past year, the formation of Junior Audubon 

 Societies has gone steadily on as hereto- 

 fore. The systematic plan of supplying 

 children with first-class material for doing 

 simple elementary work in bird-study is 

 appreciated by school men and women in 

 every state in the Union and in Canada. 



One evidence of how the Junior Audubon 

 work holds in a school where it is once 

 established is shown by the many teachers 

 in the grades who have formed a Junior 

 Society every season for the past five or 

 six years. Usually the classes move on so 

 that the teachers have a new set of children 

 each year, but their interest in the work 

 causes them to encourage each group 

 coming under their care to organize for 

 bird-study. In many other instances, 

 where a Junior Class has been formed in 

 one of the lower grades, the children have 

 insisted on reorganizing year after year, 

 although the class continually passes on to 

 the care of different teachers. 



This year, as heretofore, immense num- 

 bers of bird-boxes have been built, and 

 around thousands of schoolhouses birds 

 have been fed in winter. Many attractive 

 programs have been rendered, and the 

 local interest in bird-preservation kept 

 alive and stimulated by the little folk at 

 school. 



For the school j-ear enfiing June i, 19 18, 

 classes were formed and members enrolled 

 in the dilTerent states and Canada, as 

 shown in the following summary: 



Summary for Year Ending June i, 1918 

 State Classes Members 



Alabama 5 147 



Arizona 4 74 



Arkansas i 31 



California 197 5,678 



Colorado 48 1,487 



Connecticut 324 7, 608 



Delaware 3 51 



District of Columbia . . . i 33 



I'lorida 21 483 



(icorgia 30 938 



Idaho 57 1,530 



Illinois 247 7,285 



Indiana 109 2,999 



Iowa 118 3,021 



State Classes Members 



Kansas 65 2,009 



Kentucky 29 851 



Louisiana 7 212 



Maine 37 856 



Maryland 46 1,421 



Massachusetts 329 8,210 



Michigan 196 5,099 



Minnesota 261 6,375 



Mississippi 16 484 



Missouri 100 2,658 



Montana 66 1,620 



Nebraska 78 i,99S 



Nevada 30 



New Hampshire 92 2,221 



New Jersey 174 4,885 



New Mexico 3 92 



New York 891 24,448 



North Carolina 48 1,245 



North Dakota 30 938 



Ohio 815 18,227 



Oklahoma 26 814 



Oregon 90 2,716 



Pennsylvania 460 14,169 



Rhode Island 19 548 



South Carolina 24 901 



South Dakota 33 889 



Tennessee 26 693 



Texas 45 1,269 



Utah 37 826 



Vermont 37 797 



Virginia 25 715 



Washington 214 5,339 



West Virginia 39 1,260 



Wisconsin 161 3,981 



Wyoming 5 147 



Canada 381 8,763 



China i 15 



Totals 6,071 159,083 



Never in the history of our country have 

 school children been called upon to con- 

 tribute to so many projects, and so con- 

 tinuously, as of late. The campaign in the 

 schools for War Saving Stamps, for mem- 

 bership in the Junior Red Cross, seeds for 

 war gardens, and other war activities, have 

 been tremendous. Giving continually to 

 these most worthy causes has had a very 

 decided effect on the enrollment of the 

 Junior Audubon members. Scores of 

 teachers have reported that they found it 

 absolutely impossible to collcrt the 10 

 cents necessary for the Junior fees. 



In one large school building in the Middle 

 West, a teacher who had asked that the 

 children in the various grades bring their 



