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is a subject for State Audubon Societies, as well as for teachers and scholars, 

 to take up actively. Let our Audubon Societies reach out, on the one hand, 

 to the schools and, on the other, to the homes for support in this matter. Take 

 as a slogan: Food and Fuel — Friends and Foes, and, with this as a text, spread 

 accurate information about local food and fuel supplies, and their feathered 

 guardians and insect enemies. 



The New Jersey Audubon Society, among others, publishes excellent bird- 

 study leaflets, in which the value of birds and their status under the game- 

 laws of that state are presented. The United States Department of Agriculture 

 prints reams of authentic information, not only about birds, but also about 

 insects, forests, crops, and many kindred subjects. 



Not illustrated bulletins from Departments of Agriculture alone will do 

 what is needed. Practical demonstrations and experimental observation- 

 plots, as well as careful cultivation and inspection of areas ordinarily tilled or 

 held in reserve must form the backbone of this movement. 



Junior Audubon Societies represent a respectable army in point of numbers, 

 and, under the leadership of their various state organizations, a mighty move- 

 ment could well be organized along the following Hnes of endeavor: 



1. Canvass a definite locality, preferably a home or town area, and learn the pres- 

 ent condition of food and fuel supplies. 



2. Study these supplies with four ends in view, viz., 



a. Comparison with former abundance. 

 h. Actual present location and condition. 



c. Methods of increase and conservation. 



d. Special agents affecting these supplies, such as birds, insects, animals, fire, 



frost, average rainfall, temperature, storms, human depredations. 



3. Bring reports to school of home-conditions, whether farming areas in rural dis- 

 tricts or lawns and back yards in towns and cities. 



4. Make charts, colored to show the location of food and fuel areas. Uncultivated 

 or neglected areas should be shown in a special color. 



5. For your Bird and Arbor Day program, present a graphic, practical report of 

 the conditions in your neighborhood, with suggestions for improvement, illustrative 

 material showing the benefits of conservation, and a series of comparative pictures taken 

 from magazines or other sources, which shall point the moral of intensive cultivation 

 and protection of small areas. 



6. Present a set of simple instructions in forestry, arboriculture, and horticulture, 

 suitable for boys and girls. 



7. Do your part by engaging in active service. Children can learn the value as well 

 as the fun of discovering waste wood about farm and dwelling, and picking it up for 

 kindling next winter's fires. They can also help in the garden, by working a little here 

 and a little there, for it is a happy, joyous kind of play, really, to be in a garden with the 

 vegetables, weeds, fruit-bushes and trees and aU the strange feathered, winged, running, 

 crawling, buzzing folk which frequent it. Make work a play whether indoors or out, and 

 make duty a joy. Do your part, whether young or old, by discovering the opportunities 

 to learn new methods of doing things, new combinations of food, new ways of saving, 

 new ideas about your share and my share in this world now so rapidly changing. Move 

 on ahead or you will be left behind. — A. H. W. 



