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shooting birds on the farm, or allowing anybody else to do so, I should make 

 an example of them. I had learned a lesson. " — J. W. Taylor, President. 



Missouri. — I regret to say that the work of the Audubon Society in Missouri, 

 which for four years has been active, encouraging and full of practical results, 

 has met with a set-back, which may, for some years to come, prove in a manner, 

 disastrous. The Audubon bill for preservation of birds and game, which was 

 passed at a previous session of our legislature, has been attacked successfully 

 by its enemies in the halls of legislation. Influenced by politico-commercial 

 reasons, the very life of the bill or law has been weakened by an amendment 

 abolishing the offices of game warden and deputies, and substituting therefore 

 the sheriffs and deputies of the different counties. No argument is necessary 

 to show that sheriffs and their deputies will not enforce this law among their 

 friends and neighbors, and that without independent game wardenship the 

 law cannot be enforced at all. To the disappointment and astonishment of the 

 officers of the Audubon Society, and of the sporting clubs over the state, the 

 Governor approved the iniquitous amendment, despite protests from all sections. 

 The basic work of the Audubon Society, however, remains, but years will be 

 required to build again the structure thereon which this pernicious amendment 

 has destroyed. I regret that I cannot give a better report of the present condi- 

 tion of Audubon work in Missouri. — Walter J. Blakely, President. 



Nebraska. — How I wish that the Nebraska Society might send a long and 

 interesting report to the National Committee this year, instead it must be but 

 a word or so. Lack of funds and heavy personal cares have prevented the offi- 

 cers from carrying forward plans for a more thorough state organization. 



The work done this year, as every year since our organization, has been with 

 the younger generation. The Audubon sentiment is strong in the public schools 

 of the state. The State Superintendent of Public Institution fosters it in every 

 way. Increase in sentiment toward bird protection is noticeable, in a general 

 way, among educators, farmers and school children. 



The work of the National Association among the farmers has wrought a 

 marked change in this state, but the conscience of women in the matter of milli- 

 nery is yet to be awakened. — Miss Joy Montgomery Higgins, Secretary. 



New Hampshire.— The very full report for 1906 renders needless any 

 special reference to our routine work. In the legislature a bill was passed 

 making a closed season for five years on Wood Duck and Upland Plover. 

 This action places New Hampshire in the van, alongside with Massachusetts, 

 in the movement for the preservation of these fast-vanishing species. 



With the cooperation of Mr. William Butcher and Mr. Abbott H. Thayer, 

 we have issued warning posters concerning protected birds in general, and Wood 

 Duck and Upland Plover in particular. Besides being distributed for use as 



