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little such instruction, if any. Many States issue elaborate 



bulletins, some with many colored plates, annually to all the 



schools on Arbor and Bird Day. Massachusetts practically 



leaves the whole matter to individual effort, which never can 



be depended upon for continuous service during a long period 



of 3'ears. As the law now stands it accomplishes nothing. It 



merely encumbers the statute books. There is never likely to 



be money set aside from the fund for disseminating useful 



information for the purpose of publishing this leaflet, and the 



Department of Agriculture is not required to publish it. It is 



therefore recommended that chapter 74 of the General Acts of 



1917 be so amended as to make mandatory the preparation and 



publication of such a leaflet and to provide means for its 



publication. 



EDWARD HOWE FORBUSH, 



State Ornithologist. 

 December 19, 1918. 



