EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by WILLIAM DUTCHER 



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

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 141 Broadway, New York City 



Membership in the National Association 



$5.00 paid annually constitutes a person a Sustaining 

 Member 

 $100.00 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000.00 paid constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000.00 paid constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000.00 paid constitutes a person a Benefactor 



FORM OF BEQUEST 



/ do hereby gi've and bequeath to The 

 National Association of Audubon Socie- 

 ties FOR THE Protection of Wild Birds 

 AND Animals (Incorporated), of the City of 

 Neiv York. 



"I go to prove my soul ! 

 I see my way as birds their trackless way; 

 I shall arrive: what time, what circuit first 

 I ask not; but, unless God send His hail 

 Or blinding fire balls, sleet or stifling snow. 

 In some time, His good time, I shall arrive; 

 He guides me and the birds. In His good 



time." 

 The bird and animal lovers will arrive at 

 the goal of their hopes, "In His good time," 

 but the way to mortal eyes seems dim and 

 undefined very often and is beset by many 

 an obstacle placed by indifference, or, what 

 is far worse, selfishness and greed. The 

 altruistic has not been reached, by any 

 means, although bright gleams of sunshine 

 often cheer our way. When public officials 

 take the time from their busy lives to pen 

 such sympathetic words as the following, 

 which came from Governor Davidson, of 

 Wisconsin, it shows that " He guides." "I 

 assure you our Audubon Societies will ever 

 find me ready to lend any assistance in my 

 power to protect the wild birds and animals 

 of our country." Doubtless there are many 

 other men who occupy positions of public 

 trust who have the same feeling at heart but, 



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unfortunately, they do not take the time to 

 express it, and thus the influence of a word 

 from them is lost. Another gleam of sun- 

 shine from a well-known public man, James 

 Lane Allen, whose pen gives pleasure to so 

 many, will serve as a guide to others who 

 probably have the same sympathy at heart 

 but have not yet expressed it in a like 

 practical manner: 



"I am today in receipt of your letter of 

 i8th of June, requesting me to become a 

 sustaining member of the Audubon Socie- 

 ties. It gives me pleasure to do so, and my 

 cheque in payment of the annual dues shall 

 be found herein enclosed. 



"I should have become a member long 

 ago, if I had been asked— since the aims of 

 the Association appeal to me very strongly." 



Members and readers, please recollect that 

 the work of the Association isexpandingdaily 

 and that our great need is a largely increased 

 membership and a greater endowment in 

 order to carry on the work to which we 

 have placed our hands; that is, to protect 

 and conserve the wild birds of the country, 

 Nature's own check on the undue increase of 

 insect pests. Do you know the annual 

 loss occasioned by destructive insects in 

 the United States? If not, the following 

 will give you some facts which surely will 

 be of interest to you. 



Product 



,, , Percentage Amount 

 Value of loss of loss 



Cereals $2 



000.000,000 



10 



$200,000,000 



Hay 



550,000,000 



10 



53,000.000 



Cotton ...... 



600,000,000 



10 



60,000.000 



Tobacco 



5?, 000, 000 



10 



5,300,000 



Truck crops . ■ . . 



265,000,000 



20 



53,000,000 



Sugars 



50,000,000 



10 



5.000.000 



Fruits 



135.000,000 



20 



27.000,000 



Farm forests .... 



no 000,000 



10 



1 1,000,000 



Miscellaneous crops. 



58,000,000 



10 



5,Soo,ooo 



Animal products . . i 



,750,000,000 



10 



175,000,000 



Total .... $5 



.551,000,000 



$595,100,000 



Natural forests and 









forest products . . 







$100,000,000 



Products in storage . 







100,000,000 



Grand total . . 



$795,loo,oon 



