I02 Report of Cbmviitiee on Bird Protectiott, ^^^ 



" At a pistrict Convention, representing 32 clubs, held at 

 Cherokee, a paper prepared by our President was read and disr 

 cussed. I then made a plea for our fellow citizens of the air and 

 told of the work of our Society ; this was followed by the reading 

 of a poem — ' A Robin Pie,' the story was called, as this prompted 

 the poem — and it was found it would make an excellent leaflet, 

 which will soon be published. The following resolution was 

 unanimously carried : ' Resolved : That this , Association is in 

 thorough sympathy with the work of the Audubon Society, dis- 

 couraging the use of aigrettes and birds for ornamentation, and 

 condemning the cruel destruction of bird life to supply the 

 demands of fashion.' 



" Several ladies expressed their determination to organize 

 Audubon Societies in their various towns. 



" Permission was obtained from the Superintendent of the 

 Northern Iowa Division of the Chicago and Northwestern R. R. 

 to post the literature of the Audubon Society in the depot; the 

 Chapman aigrette leaflet was framed, and a large number of 

 other leaflets were hung from corners like almanacs. We hope 

 to get a bill through the legislature this coming winter establish- 

 ing Bird Day in the schools. I also hope to address the County 

 Farmers' Institute in January, realizing that many farmers have 

 destroyed, through ignorance, their best friends, Hawks and 

 Owls. At that time we hope to have enough of Miss Merriam's 

 pamphlets to distribute with the Circular No. 54 of the Agricul- 

 tural Department. We have had cards printed, with sections of 

 the bird laws on them, which were posted in our parks and else- 

 where. I am hoping another year we will have a State Society. 

 We feel greatly indebted to the secretaries of the various State 

 Societies for their timely and prompt responses, their suggestions 

 and leaflets and their many encouraging words." 



Arkansas. 



Mrs. Louise McGowen Stephenson of Helena, a member of 

 our Committee, has by her own unaided efforts, aroused a senti- 

 ment for bird protection, by her continuous and emphatic appeals 

 through the public press, sufficiently strong to carry successfully 



