The Audubon Societies 



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REPORT OF JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASSES 



Despite all the distracting influences the 

 past year, the formation of Junior Audubon 

 Societies has gone steadily on as hereto- 

 fore. The systematic plan of supplying 

 children with first-class material for doing 

 simple elementary work in bird-study is 

 appreciated by school men and women in 

 every state in the Union and in Canada. 



One evidence of how the Junior Audubon 

 work holds in a school where it is once 

 established is shown by the many teachers 

 in the grades who have formed a Junior 

 Society every season for the past five or 

 six years. Usually the classes move on so 

 that the teachers have a new set of children 

 each year, but their interest in the work 

 causes them to encourage each group 

 coming under their care to organize for 

 bird-study. In many other instances, 

 where a Junior Class has been formed in 

 one of the lower grades, the children have 

 insisted on reorganizing year after year, 

 although the class continually passes on to 

 the care of different teachers. 



This year, as heretofore, immense num- 

 bers of bird-boxes have been built, and 

 around thousands of schoolhouses birds 

 have been fed in winter. Many attractive 

 programs have been rendered, and the 

 local interest in bird-preservation kept 

 alive and stimulated by the little folk at 

 school. 



For the school year ending June i, 19 18, 

 classes were formed and members enrolled 

 in the different states and Canada, as 

 shown in the following summary: 



Summary for Year Ending June i, 1918 



State Classes Members 



Alabama 5 147 



Arizona 4 74 



Arkansas i 31 



California 197 5,678 



Colorado 48 1,487 



Connecticut 324 7,608 



Delaware 3 51 



District of Columbia . . . i 33 



Florida 21 483 



Georgia 30 938 



Idaho 57 1,530 



Illinois 247 7,285 



Indiana 109 2,999 



Iowa 118 3,021 



State Classes 



Kansas 65 



Kentucky 29 



Louisiana 7 



Maine 37 



Maryland 46 



Massachusetts 329 



Michigan 196 



Minnesota 261 



Mississippi 16 



Missouri 100 



Montana 66 



Nebraska 78 



Nevada 



New Hampshire 92 



New Jersey 174 



New Mexico 3 



New York 891 



North Carolina 48 



North Dakota 30 



Ohio 815 



Oklahoma 26 



Oregon 90 



Pennsylvania 460 



Rhode Island 19 



South Carolina 24 



South Dakota 33 



Tennessee 26 



Texas 45 



Utah 37 



Vermont 37 



Virginia 25 



Washington 214 



West Virginia 39 



Wisconsin 161 



Wyoming 5 



Canada 381 



China i 



Members 



2,009 



851 

 212 



1,421 

 8,210 

 5,099 



6,375 



484 



2,658 



1,620 



1,995 



30 



2,221 



4,885 



92 



24,448 



1,245 



938 



18,227 



814 



2,716 



14,169 



548 



901 



889 



693 



1,269 



826 



797 



715 



5,339 



1,260 



3,981 



147 



8,763 



15 



Totals 6,071 159,083 



Never in the history of our country have 

 school children been called upon to con- 

 tribute to so many projects, and so con- 

 tinuously, as of late. The campaign in the 

 schools for War Saving Stamps, for mem- 

 bership in the Junior Red Cross, seeds for 

 war gardens, and other war activities, have 

 been tremendous. Giving continually to 

 these most worthy causes has had a very 

 decided effect on the enrollment of the 

 Junior Audubon members. Scores of 

 teachers have reported that they found it 

 absolutely impossible to collect the 10 

 cents necessary for the Junior fees. 



In one large school building in the Middle 

 West, a teacher who had asked that the 

 children in the various grades bring their 



