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Bounty Law; has incessantly advocated licensing cats; and urged preserving 

 the Bob-white from extermination by putting it on the list of protected birds. 

 Miss Lucy B. Stone, Secretary of the Columbus organization, has been active 

 among the Juniors, and successful; and her services in fighting the Hawk and 

 Owl Bounty Law, and in helping secure a continued closed season for the Bob- 

 white and the Dove, are highly appreciated by bird-protectionists. Mrs. 

 Elizabeth C. T. Miller is the President and moving influence of the Cleveland 

 organization, which has a large membership, maintains an office, a paid 

 secretary and a field agent, and has had special lecture-work done. 



The building of bird-houses has been given much attention in the manual 

 training department of many of the public schools. At several places, especially 

 Cincinnati and Canton, boys were not only instructed how to build bird- 

 houses for themselves, but also were required to build such houses for any of 

 the girls in the same school who asked for them. The State Superintendent of 

 Public Instruction, Frank W. Miller, has added the word 'bird' to the title of 

 his last Annual, which now reads "Arbor and Bird Day Manual." It took the 

 National Association's Field Agent three years to secure this deserved official 

 recognition of bird-study in the public schools. Of all the active influences in 

 behalf of bird-protection in Ohio, the National Association of Audubon Socie- 

 ties has been the most influential and constant in its operations. Without its 

 help and encouragement conservation in this state would have, as yet, made 

 little or no headway against its opponents. 



It is regrettable that one retrograde movement must be reported in Ohio — 

 the bounty law on certain Hawks and Owls. This was passed through the last 

 Legislature, in the face of advice to the contrary from the United States and 

 State Departments of Agriculture, and of protests from Audubon Societies. 

 This backward movement was in a measure offset by a victory for the con- 

 servationists in securing from the same Legislature a continued closed sea- 

 son of two years for the Bob-white, and also a closed season for the Mourning 

 Dove. 



Your Field Agent has in the last year given 157 bird-talks in Ohio, and 65 

 in West Virginia. Appearing before that number of audiences has meant 

 much travel. Requests for 'bird-lectures' now come from schools, churches, 

 clubs, societies, hbraries, and other organizations so frequently that he is able 

 to respond to only a part of them. Contrasted with the situation in this state 

 three years ago, this fact is encouraging indeed. A large number of Ohio news- 

 papers have been furnished news-items and educational matter by your 

 Agent, and he has secured the attention of the state educational journals, 

 which will give assistance in the Junior work. No small part of your Agent's 

 time has necessarily been given to a heavy correspondence. 



