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the Committee, particularly the present chairman, Raymond J. Gregory, of 

 Princeton, and the Secretary, Mrs. E. O. Marshall, of New Salem, have 

 delivered very many illustrated talks on birds before Granges in different parts 

 of the state. Messrs. Walter K. Putney, of Chelmsford, and Clayton E. Stone, 

 of Lunenburg, have also assisted much in this work. Every year this Com- 

 mittee has celebrated bird-days with exercises particularly for the children. 

 From time to time these exercises have taken place in different counties, until 

 the state has been fairly well covered. 



Some of these exercises have been attended by large numbers of people, 

 and at some of them motion pictures of birds, obtained through the National 

 Association of Audubon Societies, have been shown. Taken all in all, the work 

 done by this Committee of the State Grange is one of the most important for 

 the protection of birds ever undertaken among agricultural communities. 

 This is a neglected field and should be more thoroughly tilled. Little has been 

 done outside of New England to interest the members of the Grange in the 

 protection of birds. We often hear it said that the farmers take no interest 

 in the protection of birds, but there is a great latent interest in this subject 

 among agriculturists which can best be developed by working through their 

 own organizations. There should be a Committee for the protection of birds 

 in the National Grange and in every State Grange in the United States. At 

 the present time there are in this country 800,000 members in the Patrons of 

 Husbandry. The National Association should cultivate this field. 



REPORT OF WINTHROP PACKARD, FIELD AGENT 

 FOR MASSACHUSETTS 



An old Enghsh proverb says "It's dogged as does it," meaning, as Boston 

 might translate it, "persistency pays." The work of spreading the gospel of 

 bird-protection throughout the New England States had been doggedly per- 

 sisted in by your agent in Massachusetts during the past year. Appeals to 

 join the cause, sent out monthly to carefully selected lists, have yielded 

 gratifyingly increased results, the actual cash returns for members and sub- 

 scriptions being practically double those of the same period (October to 

 October) for 1919. The same is true of the Junior Class returns, the number in 

 these classes in Massachusetts for the year ending in June, 1920, being 25,240, 

 as against 13,023 for the previous year. This is a record for Massachusetts, 

 placing us high in the list of states at the end of the season, and the numbers 

 coming in during the summer recess were such that we start the school year as 

 leader of all states by a substantial majority. Your agent feels that much of 

 the success in Junior work was due to the substantial subscription of $500 made 

 to the National Association by the state society and used solely for promoting 

 the Junior work in the state. It is very gratifying that this generosity of the 

 Massachusetts Audubon Society should have shown such immediate results. 



