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this the 'News' did, and then distributed the buttons, reaching much 

 further than could an individual or a society. Yet, who can estimate the 

 value, from an educational point of view, of the daily publishing of the 

 Bird pledge, for weeks at a time, in the leading daily paper of the state? 



"Again, in no other way could the society do so much for the birds and 

 the children, both, as to help the Superintendent of Public Instruction 

 (himself a member of our executive board) to fill the pages of the Bird 

 Day Annual. 



"The annual meeting of the society was one that received the enthusi- 

 astic recognition of the city in which it was held. The schools furnished 

 the music, and they were closed for the afternoon session. 



"Always, one of the papers of the session is furnished by a pupil of the 

 High School in which the meeting is held; at this meeting the paper was 

 illustrated by tabulations on the blackboard showing the economic value of 

 the bird studied, at different seasons of the year. The work was represen- 

 tative of what is done in the schools of that city along these lines, and shows 

 what an exceptionally practical as well as pleasurable subject bird study is. 



"As far as the plans for the coming year are made, we shall continue 

 work already begun, and develop and extend it as we have means and 

 opportunity. Our only new work for next year will be to establish local 

 secretaries, according to suggestions from the National Committee." 



Iowa. — The effort of the National Committee to secure the adoption 

 of the Model Law by the legislature of 1904 met with failure, although a 

 large amount of work was done. Miss Hamand, the secretary of the 

 Schaller Society, spent some weeks at the Capitol at the request, and par- 

 tially at the expense, of the National Committee, in the interest of proper 

 bird legislation, and also to help the passage of a bill to abolish live -bird trap- 

 shooting. The latter bill was successful, and the cruel practice of trap- 

 shooting at animate targets is now illegal. Mrs. Parrott, corresponding 

 secretary, furnishes the following summary of work done in 1904: 



"In Iowa there are many societies and organizations for the protection 

 of birds. Very few of these have united with the state organization, how- 

 ever; better results could be obtained in the way of enforcing the laws and 

 educating the public if all would unite with one central organization. 



"The State Audubon Society was founded and incorporated at Keokuk 

 in 1898, although the Schaller Society is the oldest in the state. Both so- 

 cieties have done considerable work distributing National Committee leaflets 

 and along other educational lines. 



"Much has been done to improve legislation in our state. It was largely 

 through the efforts of Miss Jane Hamand, of Schaller, that our Iowa legis- 

 lature passed a law prohibiting the use of live Pigeons and Turkeys in trap- 

 shooting. 



