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was considered at the meeting of the directors of the General Federation held 

 last June; the results being that Audubon work was made part of the duties 

 of the Forestry Committee. 



At our annual meeting, the president, Mr. Deane, stated that some of the 

 largest wholesale and retail millinery dealers in Chicago had assured him that 

 there was a great decrease in the sale of feathers. Another encouraging state- 

 ment was that the local MiUinery Association, under the leadership of Mr. 

 Bode (a warm friend of the birds) had practically agreed to conform to the main 

 principles of the Audubon Society. 



At the session of the state legislature last winter, some improvements were 

 made in the game laws. The open season for Woodcock and Mourning Doves 

 is shortened a month and the day's 'bag' for Ducks and water-fowl is reduced 

 from thirty-five to twenty, and for Quail and other game-birds, from twenty- 

 five to fifteen. A backward step is the passage of the bill offering a bounty on 

 Crows and their eggs. This was passed in spite of the remonstrance of the State 

 Game Commissioner and the Audubon Society. An effort will be made to repeal 

 this bill. 



The secretary of the Farmers' Institute, Mr. H. A. McKeene, has recently 

 issued a valuable article on bird protection, which is being widely circulated in 

 the state. At the state meeting of the Institute last winter, a strong resolution 

 was passed against the kilHng of Quail, Prairie Chickens, Pheasants or any 

 common bird, and also asking the legislature to pass laws forbidding Sunday 

 hunting. One of our directors, Mrs. E. S. Adams, has recently assumed charge 

 of a department on Audubon work in 'School News, ' a paper that reaches many 

 of our teachers. The 'Prairie Farmer,' Mr. C. P. Reynolds, editor, is also 

 giving part of its space to bird subjects. The Society has sent out during the 

 year, through its Senior and Junior Departments, 10,122 Leaflets. — Miss 

 Mary Drummond, Secretary-Treasurer. 



Indiana. — For the past year the regular work of a State Audubon Society 

 has been carried on in this state much as in others. Perhaps this report would 

 be more useful if it told of some of the ways of work we have found most help- 

 ful, rather than of routine and general work. 



The school authorities, from the Superintendent of Public Instruction to the 

 kindergarten practice teachers, are awake to the value of bird-study in the 

 schools, and the Bird and Arbor Days are observed with real enthusiasm. The 

 teachers work directly with the materials m hand; during the heavy snows of 

 last winter, school children in various parts of the state were feeding the birds 

 and reporting on what they saw was an absorbing part of their school work. 



Today, in many of the schools of this city, the pupils are carrying the infested 

 branches of trees and nests of caterpillars to school with them, that the pests 

 may be destroyed. They understand that the birds are gone, and so it becomes 

 necessary for some one else to do the birds' work, and this unusual invasion 



