﻿State Reports 261 



ask about feathers on hats they were intending to buy, which the milliners 

 had assured them were ' just manufactured ones.' 



" In addition to the regular monthly meetings of the Board of Directors, 

 a course of four lectures was held, with Mr. Schuyler Mathews, Mr. 

 Ernest Harold Baynes, Prof. C. F. Hodge and Rev. Herbert K. Job, as 

 lecturers." — Miss Jessie E. Kimball, Secretary. 



Michigan. — "During the past year a marked growth in sentiment 

 favoring bird and animal protection has been apparent in Michigan. 

 Animals in general are included in the report, because the Society has been 

 called upon to protect animals, both in the wild and domestic state, and co- 

 operation has always been given where possible. The secretary considers 

 this advisable, for those interested in other forms of protection feel that the 

 society stands for something and are willing to give it sympathy and aid. 

 Where the Society refuses to act because of limitations in scope, it is quite 

 likely to make an enemy. 



"Another wholesome condition that gives hope for the future is the 

 fact that a number of public officials are willing to enforce the law, due, 

 perhaps, to the general agitation for the better things throughout the 

 country. However, the wedge has no more than entered in Michigan 

 in this respect, as our game-warden system is still next to worthless. More 

 active workers have been secured during the past six months than in the 

 previous two years. Much time has been spent in endeavoring to organize 

 local societies, with comparatively poor results. Our state does not seem 

 ripe for vigorous societies, and we have found that conscientious active 

 workers at various points do more than half-organized or indifferent so- 

 cieties. A number of active workers have been found who have taken the 

 responsibility of bringing Audubon work before the superintendents of 

 schools, and teachers, and a few have contributed to the press. 



' The State Educational Department aids us in the distribution of 

 literature. After the organization of the Society, most of the work was 

 confined to the suburbs of Detroit, as our subscribers are almost exclusively 

 citizens of that city. During the past year the work has been wholly in the 

 state, with the result that those of the city who do not keep posted are 

 falling behind in their subscriptions. We have had two or three lectures 

 during the winter season in Detroit, and in that way keep the people 

 of the city in touch with the work. In the state it is almost impossible to 

 get subscriptions. In regard to the work of protection, we are hampered 

 because of lack of funds. The Model Law, which the National President, 

 Mr. Dutcher, and the Society, were instrumental in passing, gives the 

 Society the right to appoint four deputy wardens, but, as no appropriation 

 was made, we have not been able to take advantage of this provision of 

 the law. 



