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protect the birds on them are invited to consult the office as to the 

 best means of doing this. 



Cloth In consultation with the Massachusetts Commissioners of 



Posters. Fisheries and Game, a cloth poster for posting land against 

 hunting and trespassing has been devised and adopted aa 

 embodying the most effectively legal form of warning and the Society 

 supplies these free to the number of a dozen, enough to post properly 

 a small place. They are supplied in larger quantities at cost. Dur- 

 ing the past two years some five thousand of these have been dis- 

 tributed. The same form, printed in Italian, is also supplied in the 

 same way and a considerable number of these have been used. They 

 are mailed to any address on application. 



Junior With the encouragement and assistance of the National Asso- 

 Classes. ciation of Audubon Societies, the Massachusetts Society four 

 years ago began the work of instituting junior classes in 

 bird study and bird protection throughout the State. Through lists 

 kindly supplied by Superintendents, every teacher in the State has 

 been yearly invited to form such classes and those forming them have 

 been assisted in every possible way in carrying on the work. The 

 children have thus received lessons in literature, Audubon buttons and 

 certificate of membership in the Society, and thus more than 27,000 

 have been started in the work of bird protection and are growing up 

 to be at maturity even more valuable assistants In the cause. During 

 all this time the leaflets and other material have been supplied free 

 by the National Association of Audubon Societies and the small fees 

 paid by the children have gone Into the treasury of the Massachusetts 

 Audubon Society, paying for postage and clerical work and leaving a 

 modest margin to help on the other work of the Society. This junior 

 class work Is to go on from the office at 66 Newbury Street, but is 

 now taken over entirely by the National Association of Audubon So- 

 cieties. The Massachusetts Society takes pleasure in thus publicly 

 acknowledging the assistance which the National Association has in 

 this, as In so many other ways, cheerfully given. 



State One of the duties of this Society Is to watch legislation, 



Legislation, see that no bills pass that are Inimical to birds and help 

 on so far as it legitimately may all such measures as pro- 

 pose a larger protection. In this it Is pleasing to note that it yearly 

 finds individuals and organizations, within the legislature and without, 

 more favorable to its cause. This Is gratlfyingly true of the better 

 sportsmen, who realize that our cause Is their own and work with us, 



