Cfie Hububon Societies; 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, President 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances, for dues and contributions, to 



the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



Telephone, Columbus 7327 



T. Gilbert Pearson, President 

 Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President William P. Wharton, Secretary 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Second Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Treasurer 



Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member of it, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



$5 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 



Sioo paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership > 



$1,000 constitutes a person a Patron 



$5,000 constitutes a person a Founder 



$25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Form of Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



ANNUAL REPORT FOR THE JUNIOR AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



The eleventh fiscal year of the Associa- 

 tion's Junior organization effort came to an 

 end June i, 192 1. The conditions under 

 which we have worked have been trying be- 

 cause of the enormously increased costs in 

 connection with printing the supplies fur- 

 nished to Junior Members. In fact, it was 

 impossible with the funds at our disposal to 

 publish enough material for all those who 

 wished to join. As the children pay fees of 

 only 10 cents, and as the material furnished 

 them costs about twice this much to manu- 

 facture and deliver, it can readily be seen 

 there is a limit to the number that can be 

 supplied. The total contributions the past 

 year amounted to $26,288.45, of which $20,- 

 000 was contributed by the unnamed Bene- 

 factor who for ten years past has made this 

 important phase of the work possible. With 

 these funds the Association was enabled the 

 past year to organize 5,851 Bird Clubs with 

 an enrollment of 229,787 boys and girls. 



These Jrniior Clubs or 'classes' were organ- 

 ized in all the states of the Union and in many 

 of the Provinces of Canada. Teachers head- 

 ing the groups not only sought to arouse 

 interest in bird-study on the part of their 

 pupils, through the literature furnished, but 

 directed them in many activities of a co- 

 ordinate nature. Thus, through the states 



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where colder temperature prevailed, the 

 birds were fed during snows. Seeds were 

 placed on boards, on the ground after the 

 snow had been removed, and fragments of 

 suet were tied to stakes or limbs of trees. In 

 the late winter and spring many thousands of 

 bird-boxes were built and erected to provide 

 homes for hole-nesting species. Throughout 

 the year hundreds of little entertainments, 

 all dealing with the subject of bird-life, were 

 given in schoolrooms throughout the land, 

 where recitations and plays were given and 

 thousands of young voices were raised in 

 songs about their bird friends. 



Anyone intimately in touch with this work 

 and familiar with the enthusiastic reception 

 which the subject is given by school men and 

 women, as well as by the boys and girls, can- 

 not help but regret that funds are not avail- 

 able so that the Junior effort can be vastly 

 broadened and strengthened. With sufii- 

 cient funds, one million children might read- 

 ily be organized every 3^ear into these bird- 

 study groups. Fortunately, owing to the 

 recent fall in the cost of paper and the 

 slightly increased income for the work, the 

 Association expects to be in position to han- 

 dle a larger number of Junior Members the 

 coming year than during any like period of 

 its history. In fact, before these lines were 



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