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birds. Besides this, I have distributed about 20,000 circulars, 

 and have had the law in regard to killing birds printed on large 

 placards and posted in conspicuous places. 



" I have not had time to organize any Audubon Societies yet, 

 but have organized a number of Humane Societies which ought 

 to cover the same ground. In fact the State Humane Education 

 Society proposes to do some protective legislative work the 

 coming winter. I have addressed the children in the public 

 schools at nearly all the places I have visited on the subject of 

 bird protection, and advocated a Bird Day, which I hope to see 

 established in a few months." 



Missouri. 



Mr. O. Widmann, of the Committee, reports that little has 

 been done in his State. An exhibition of birdless millinery was 

 given in St. Louis, but seemed to have little effect. 



" The laws," he states, " are all right as far as they go but are 

 good for nothing if they are not taken care of by somebody who 

 has the means to enforce them, and as a rule the only means to 

 enforce a law is money to. pay men who see that it is enforced. . . . 

 The sale of shot guns and ammunition has been unprecedently 

 large in St. Louis, and the war has given a new incentive to the 

 love of slaughter." 



Arkansas. 



Mrs. Louise McGowen Stephenson, of the Committee, sends a 

 most important report which we regret, from lack of space, can- 

 not be given entire. 



She has distributed 2000 placards of the bird laws throughout 

 the State, having them posted in schools, railroad stations, express 

 offices, barber' shops, saloons and meat markets. Through her 

 efforts and those of Mr. John M. Rose, a new law will be pre- 

 sented to the legislature providing for a State fish and game 

 warden to look after the enforcement of the laws, and with power 

 to appoint assistants. Mrs. Stephenson has also been active in 



