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parent society and showing their affihation with it. Each club was also presented 

 with a No. i Audubon Bird Chart to be used in their daily or weekly work, 

 and especially for object study. The future conduct of these clubs is, of course, 

 left largely to the directors and the principals of the various schools, our 

 Society being at all times ready to assist them by word and counsel. 



With the assistance of a large chart, slides, and films, I talk to these clubs 

 from time to time and help to keep alive the interest. We have now some 8,000 

 children enrolled in these affiliated bird clubs, and we have only started. Have 

 also had made a set of slides for use in our local movie houses. We have found 

 these to be of great value in carrying on this work and earnestly recommend 

 this method of propaganda to all our fellow conservationists. This has been 

 almost our entire effort the past year, and we hope to continue the work this 

 coming year. I believe that education is the only real solution of this great 

 problem, and that to educate the children and teach them the first ethics 

 of wild-life conservation is the greater and more important obligation of all 

 lovers of our feathered friends. — Adolph Biersach, Secretary. 



Williamstown (Mass.) Bird Club. — Our Club was started in January, 

 1917, after a lecture by Mr. Baynes. In the spring there was a lecture for the 

 school-children, given by Mr. Packard. On Arbor and Bird Day there were 

 addresses by Prof. S. F. Clarke and Judge Fenney. 



Letters were written by Prof. Clarke and by Judge Fenney to our legis- 

 lators, in regard to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. 



The Club was made a member of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies by the sending of $5 to the Massachusetts agent, Winthrop Packard. 

 A special contribution of $5 was sent to the Massachusetts Audubon Society 

 for the protection pf our native birds, made necessary at that time by the 

 unusual amount of the shooting of birds by foreign laborers, who plead the 

 excuse of the high cost of meat. 



A beginning has been made toward a collection of bird-skins, and the follow- 

 ing ones have been purchased: Tree Swallow, pr. ; Red Poll, pr. ; Tree Sparrow, 

 pr.; Evening Grosbeak, pr.; Chickadee^ pr.; Pine Finch, pr.; Hudsonian 

 Chickadee, pr. 



The Bird Box Committee was authorized to spend $15 on nesting-boxes. 

 About fifty boxes were put up in various parts of the village and many of them 

 were occupied. Some members of the Club were active in reducing the number 

 of English Sparrows, and more members fed the winter birds with seeds and 

 suet. 



The Club has a membership of 57 and a balance in the bank of $47.^ — Mary 

 L. Fernald, Secretary. 



Winston-Salem (N. C.) Audubon Society. — Our May meeting was held 

 on the lawn at Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Foltz's home on West Second Street. 



