PRESIDENT FUERTES ADDRESSING ONE OF THE COMPANIES OF SCHOOL 

 CHILDREN AND PARENTS AT THE ANNUAL FIELD DAY IN THE CAYUGA BIRD 

 CLUB SANCTUARY. 



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The Cayuga Bird Club 



By ARTHUR A. ALLEN, Secretary 



ELIEVING that the conservation principle needs organized pubUc 

 opinion for its realization, and believing that the usefulness of Cornell 

 and Ithaca to the cause of citizenship will be greatly increased by a 

 popular local conservation movement, the Cayuga Bird Club proposes to 

 teach the conservation principle by a concrete example of the conservation of 

 bird life, through the creation of a bird sanctuary. 



"This club should prove a very real factor in the conservation movement, 

 for it will include in its membership scientists 'to point the way,' and rep- 

 resentative citizens of all ages to promote the cause. 



"The birds should prove a wise and popular beginning for conservation 

 because they happily combine esthetic and genuine agricultural values. The 

 entire community should respond to this call for cooperation that is at once 

 selfish, being pleasurable, and altruistic, in that it seeks to preserve nature's 

 beauties and life- values for generations yet imborn." 



Such is the foreword of the constitution of the Cayuga Bird Club, as 

 written by its founder. Dr. Ruby Green Smith. And the objects to be accom- 

 plished are four in number: First, the protection of birds from their enemies; 

 secondly, the increase of native birds by the erection of bird-houses and bird- 

 baths and the feeding of winter birds ; thirdly, the seeking of legislative im- 



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