SECTION V 



EDUCATION AND THE BIRDS 

 CHAPTER X 



Educating Adults. Those grown people that are 

 willing to be educated can be reached by the public 

 press, and by such magazines as Bird Lore, Recreation, 

 Forest and Stream, and others ; by the publications of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture, and by 

 the abundant and constantly increasing bird literature. 



The Audubon Societies, the League of American 

 Sportsmen, and other societies that work for the 

 preservation and appreciation of the interesting and 

 the beautiful in nature, have already done much good 

 work, but their membership must be very much in- 

 creased. To compel people desirous of joining one of 

 these societies to write a letter and expend from five 

 to ten cents in order to have his membership fee of 

 twenty-five cents or one dollar reach the proper parties, 

 is very poor business policy. In every town one or more 

 book-stores and other business houses will be found 

 willing to receive dues and issue membership cards. 

 Display in these places the beautiful colored chart of 

 twenty-six common birds, published by the Massachu- 

 setts Audubon Society, and on a placard attached to the 

 chart invite people to join. On a table near the chart 



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