State Reports 



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\V. !■'. Blackmail, of Rollin> (Dllcgi', writes: "I had tlic |)leasure of speaking 

 at the conlcreiue, in St. Augustine, to some four or live hundred teachers and 

 others about the Au(hihon Soiiet). " As a resuh, the secretary, Mrs. Vander- 

 pool rei)ort> "tluit rociuests for hlerature and instruction have come from five 

 new counlie>. '" 



The auxiharies at Port Orange and San Mateo have greatly increased the 

 interest in their localities. 'The Palmetto Cluh,' at Daytona, 'The Fortnightly,' 

 at Palm Beach, 'The Winter Park Fortnightly,' 'The Housekeepers' Club' at 

 Cocoanut drove, 'The Friday Literary' at Bradeiitown, have sustaining or 

 annual members, and are doing active work for bird ])rotection. The Florida 

 Sunshine Society sends into many houses its rays of love and kindness to birds. 

 Mrs. Robert, of Palm Beach, made an especial feature of an afternoon fete, 

 the reading of the National Association's report for Florida. Mrs. E. A. Graves, 



(;lv br.\dlev's gr.we 



Pholograpli tjy Kirk Munroe 



of Ormond. writes of the interest in the 'Village Improvement Club.' Mr. 

 John Anderson, of Ormond, is an interested officer of the Societv, while our 

 thanks are given most sincerely to Mrs. Haden, of Orlando, and Mrs. Belknap, 

 at Miami, for constant and efficient service. Mrs. E. K. Anderson, chairman 

 of the Bird Protection Committee of the State Federation of Women's Clubs, 

 reports: "There are fourteen clubs that have special committees on bird pro- 

 tection, and the majority of these have, during the past year, observed Bird Day 

 with appropriate exercises. This year work among the schools will be more 

 generally taken up." 



Bird Day was ()bser\ed by the Orange City X'illage Im[)rovemcnt Society. 

 The newspapers in the state have been most generous in aiding us, and we have 

 had, as always, the cooperation of the Southern Express Company. 



This year, for the second time, a bill to prevent the shooting of live Pigeons 



