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also take steps to post warning notices wherever and whenever necessary for 

 the enforcement of the Model Law. 



During the year the following literature has been distributed: About 500 

 circulars on the 'Value of Birds to Agriculture/ at farmers' institutes, 800 

 copies of the Model Law, as passed in Iowa in 1906, and 3,000 National Asso- 

 ciation Leaflets to teachers' institutes, Chautauqua meetings, etc. Many circu- 

 lars and National Association Leaflets have been sent on request to members 

 •of women's clubs, superintendents of public schools, and teachers in general. 



In spite of the fact that there seems to be a strong sentiment in favor of bird 

 protection in Iowa, there has been only a slight increase in membership during 

 the past year, and it is still difficult to secure local secretaries or active workers 

 who take more than a passing interest in the protection of bird life or the enforce- 

 ment of the Model Law. 



School children, in kindergarten and primary grades, are being well in- 

 structed concerning birds, and are encouraged to study the many phases of 

 bird-life in their natural haunts by actual observation, as well as from books 

 and charts which are quite liberally provided. 



Prof. John E. Cameron, of Kansas City, Mo., recognizing the need of pre- 

 paring the teachers for this work, has given numerous lectures in Iowa, at teach- 

 ers' institutes, on bird-life, illustrated by a series of stereopticon views. He 

 believes that there are enough strange things in nature to interest and surprise 

 the young without conjuring up a lot of things which are not true. About three 

 hundred pictures, many of which were finely colored, were flashed upon the 

 screen, showing the many varieties of song-birds and others found in the beau- 

 tiful fringe of woods along the banks of rivers and lakes of Iowa. Professor 

 Cameron's discourse was helpful and full of practical information, and withal 

 inspiring a love for the feathered creatures of the air. The Agricultural Depart- 

 ment of Farmers' Institutes has also been active in securing illustrated lectures 

 along this line, and in this manner educating the farmers as to the value of birds 

 in farm life. 



The members of the official board are constantly in receipt of invitations 

 to give talks on bird-life at public gatherings. Mrs. W. B. Small, president, 

 represented the Society and delivered an address at the meeting of the Iowa 

 Federation of Women's Clubs, in Oskaloosa, in May. Dr. Margaret Clark, 

 chairman of the Executive Committee, on several occasions has been called 

 to give impromptu talks, and the secretary has received and accepted an invi- 

 tation to read a paper at the meeting of the Iowa Park and Forestry Association, 

 to be held in Des Moines in December. 



Mr. Enos A. Mills, of Estes Park, Col., who is sent out by the Government 

 in the interest of forestry, will speak of the value of birds to forests in the 

 lectures which he will give this month in Des Moines, Marshalltown and 

 Waterloo. 



We are greatly in need of workers in Iowa, who will act as local secretaries, 



