10 XEIV JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY 



acting as one of the three judges in deciding awards. One 

 of the immediate developments from this was the enrollment 

 of the firm of L. S. Plant & Co. as a Life Member of this 

 Society. The popularizing of bird house building and placing 

 is a hopeful sign of the times. 



School Bird Clubs: It wall be recalled that up to the 

 time of our last Annual Report, this Society had been co- 

 operating with the National ^Association of Audubon Societies 

 in the oiganizaiion of Junior Audubon Classes in tne schools. 

 On that occasion it was possible to report the greatest re- 

 sults yet achieved in this work in New Jersey, — 579 Classes 

 organized, with a total membership of 14,382. in our Novem- 

 ber issue of the Bulletin, it was explained how the canceling 

 by the National Association of Audubon Societies of the 

 arrangement of co-operation had forced this Society to either 

 abandon the highly important school w^ork, or undertake it 

 on an independent basis, involving an added $1,500 of expense 

 over what we had previously expended for such work. Leaf- 

 lets, colored plates and outlines had to be prepared, which 

 was accomplished and an adequate stock secured. School Bird 

 Clubs were substituted for Junior Audubon Classes. The 

 results secured, 373 Clubs, with a total membership of 8,419 

 compared not unfavorably with the initial year of Junior 

 Audubon Class work, 1911-12, when 411 Classes, with a total 

 membership of 8,910 were secured. It also compares well 

 with 174 Junior Audubon Classes, 4,885 members, reported 

 for the past year by the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies. It' is to be regretted that a greater amount of 

 public support for this as for other phases of the Society's 

 work has not been forthcoming, since, unless conditions in 

 this respect very greatly improve this work, which should be 

 one of our most important endeavors, will have to be 

 abandoned. 



As proving that interest and enthusiasm among teachers 

 and pupils remains unabated in the work, we submit a few 

 sample extracts from the many letters received from teachers: 



'The members of the St. Cloud School (West Orange) Bird 

 Club are having a great treat and I thought it might be of in- 

 terest to you to hear of it. A pair of cardinals have elected to 

 spend the' winter in the woods at no great distance from our 

 school. They fly about very near the road and are seen almost 

 every day by some of the children. Several of the children have 

 had the honor of feeding them in their yards. 



