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W. C. T. U., at Hudson. The local secretary at Fair Haven, who is also 

 superintendent of W. C. T. U. of Cayuga county, has distributed thou- 

 sands of leaflets throughout the county. She reports that 'fifteen Unions are 

 doing work; perhaps thirty-five different schools have been giving out 

 literature. I am working in union with the Auburn Humane Club, and we 

 have systematized the work and will try to reach every town in Cayuga 

 county. The increased interest is surprising.' 



"The enthusiastic local secretary in Amsterdam has shown great 

 energy in traveling from town to town, calling upon editors and clergymen, 

 and has been very successful in arousing interest and in securing new local 

 secretaries. Many reports of Bird Day exercises were received, but the 

 observance is not obligatory, as it should be. Good news, however, is con- 

 tained in the new State Syllabus for the schools. In all grades of school 

 work, bird study in some form is introduced. Many teachers are taking 

 up a twenty weeks' course of nature study. Applications are already 

 coming in for leaflets to meet their needs. 



"In the coming year, all energies must be directed to encouraging 

 and developing the work already undertaken, along the lines indicated; 

 through established organizations of various kinds to reach throughout each 

 county; to use every effort to strengthen the resources of the Society, that 

 the demands for literature, to be placed where it will be read and studied 

 to the best advantage, may be fully met; and, most important of all, to 

 call forth all the influence the Society can wield to secure a Bird Day 

 Amendment to the Arbor Day Law, that hereafter no public school 

 in the state may fail to observe and enjoy ' Bird-Day.' " — Miss Emma H. 

 LOCKWOOD, Secretary. 



North Carolina. — " The Audubon Society work in North Carolina the 

 past year has been attended with marked results. The work of cultivating 

 general interest has gone steadily forward, and evidences on every hand point 

 to a healthy and most satisfactory growth of public sentiment. Literature 

 on the value of insect-eating birds and the importance of preserving game- 

 birds and animals from undue killing has been carefully and systematically 

 distilled in all of the ninety-seven counties in the state. 



" More than one million five hundred thousand pages of printed infor- 

 mation have thus been given to the public. About five hundred books 

 on bird and animal life are in constant use in the circulating libraries of the 

 Society. Digests of the game laws on cloth have been printed and posted 

 in all quarters of North Carolina. Forty-six wardens have been employed 

 to do this work and to look after the enforcement of the laws. These agents 

 of the Society brought ninety-one prosecutions in the state courts, and in 

 eighty-four cases convictions were secured. Fifty-eight of these were for 

 violating game laws, and twenty-six for killing non-game birds. 



