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also, cooperation with the Associated Press, in Michigan; bird- and nature- 

 study courses in summer schools, as suggested by the work of the President of 

 the Minnesota Society; New Jersey's permanent exhibit of the economic value 

 of birds; the extension work of the North Dakota Agricultural College and pre- 

 miums offered by the State Audubon Society in connection with membership; 

 the practical use of fees derived from hunting-licenses in North Carolina; 

 Pennsylvania's exhibit in Philadelphia; museum- work as enlarged by the 

 Audubon Society of Rhode Island; exhibits and visiting schools in East 

 Tennessee; the results of cooperation in West Virginia, and finally, the effort to 

 furnish teachers with suitable nature-study material and topics for class use 

 in Wisconsin. 



Such a hasty survey of the manifold means now in operation for the edu- 

 cation of the public along fair and broad lines of thought, concerning the value, 

 use and conservation of nature, does scant justice to the inspiring effort of the 

 bird-lovers of this country. The signs of the times point to a speedy and 

 permanent uplift in the attitude of our people toward questions affecting wild 

 life. 



By acting upon the suggestions of individual workers and societies, the 

 results of our work as a whole may be easily doubled and tripled. — ^A. H. W. 



JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK 



For Teachers and Pupils 

 Exercise XIII: Correlated Studies, Botany and Reading 



THE BIRD'S LIFE IN WINTER 



Having studied briefly the way in which birds get their food, we may very 

 profitably look about us during the winter months and see what it means for 

 a bird to live in cold climates from fall until spring. 



And first, let us try to forget our own surroundings, and look out upon 

 the world as the bird does. It would certainly seem a dif&cult matter to any 

 civilized human being to find enough to eat and drink, to say nothing of suit- 

 able shelter even in summer or autumn, when nature is most lavish in display- 

 ing attractive food of many kinds and hospitable nooks protected from sun 

 and storm, but in winter, one cannot imagine a more desolate fate, in northern 

 latitudes at least, than to be cast adrift with no resource except one's hands and 

 wits to sustain life. 



The bird's problem is more difficult, since it must brave not only cold, 

 stormy weather, a variable and greatly lessened food-supply, but also dangers 

 and enemies which man does not need to fear. Suppose we set down this 

 problem as one might a sum in arithmetic, in two columns, one showing the 



