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three nesting-boxes made by boys. The contest was a great success. The Bird 

 Club will urge the women to hold this contest each spring. Supplementing this, 

 the Maywood Bird Club fostered the making of nesting-boxes by the boys 

 during and after school hours. Over night, it seemed, bird-boxes grew on trees 

 and posts and buildings everywhere until there were more houses than bird 

 families. 



Maywood now has a model cat ordinance, framed by the Club and passed 

 by the unanimous vote of the village Board. The opposition, by a futile petition 

 to the Circuit Court to enjoin the village Board from enforcing the ordinance, 

 gave it statewide publicity and thereby made it a precedent. Being based on 

 the law relating to public nuisances, it declares stray and unrestrained cats to 

 be a source of damage to gardens and a menace to public health and bird-life. 

 It provides for the killing of all stray cats and the confinement of all other cats 

 between 7 p. m. and 9 a. m. every day from April i to September 30, inclusive. 

 All persons are given the right to kill any and all cats trespassing on their 

 premises. Fines are imposed for violations. The Maywood Bird Club asked the 

 Illinois Audubon Society to assume the responsibility of securing an amendment 

 to the Illinois statutes which will enable villages and cities to pass ordinances 

 compelling the licensing of cats. 



April 3 is now a red-letter day in Maywood. This spring it was John Bur- 

 roughs' eightieth birthday. On that day, in honor of Burroughs and Audubon, 

 the Club organized Junior Audubon Classes and created the Burroughs Associa- 

 tion of Junior Audubon Classes as a department of the Club through which to 

 assist them. When school closed in June, 12 classes, with an enrollment of 330 

 children, had been organized. The Club is now putting the matter before each 

 of the remaining 50 teachers with the hope that every school-boy and girl in 

 Maywood and Melrose Park will soon be wearing a button with a Robin on it. 

 As protection and encouragement naturally follow enlightenment on bird-life, 

 and as bird-lore greatly adds to the joy of living, the Club considers the 

 organization and moral and material support of these classes of first importance. 

 — Roy M. Langdon, Secretary. 



Meriden (N. H.) Bird Club. — Our Club began the year by issuing its 

 Third Annual Report. This document is in the form of a book containing 1 14 

 pages and 32 half-tone illustrations from photographs. The following im- 

 portant letters, recently received by our General Manager, also appear in 

 the Report: 



My Dear Mr. Baynes: 



I have heard with sincere interest of your campaign in behalf of American birds, 

 and want to give myself the pleasure of expressing my great interest and of wishing 

 you the most substantial success. Cordially yours, 



(Signed) Woodrow Wilson. 



