Reports of Field Agents 463 



REPORTS OF FIELD AGENTS 



REPORT OF WINTHROP PACKARD, FIELD AGENT 

 FOR MASSACHUSETTS 



The good work that the National Association of Audubon Societies has 

 done in past years throughout Massachusetts certainly has a firm foundation 

 in the hearts of the people, for, in spite of war conditions, the interest in the 

 welfare of our wild birds continues. 



Your agent has been able, during the past year, to add to the membership 

 hst of the Association 31 Hfe members and loi sustaining members. In the 

 Junior Class work, 8,210 new Juniors have been added. The interest of the 

 public in the cause has been shown in the continued calls for lectures, exhibi- 

 tions, information, and personal advice and assistance in bird-work. In this 

 the office has worked with various influential and important societies. It gave 

 an exhibition at Worcester in conjunction with the State Society and the State 

 Board of Agriculture; at Horticultural Hall at Boston it joined with the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society in its exhibition and instruction work for home- 

 gardens, making a display of bird-protection material during the spring and 

 summer months. It joined with the State Grange and State Audubon Society 

 in a Bird Day exhibition and lectures. The requests for travehng exhibits 

 of bird-protection material to be shown in various parts of the state, and 

 indeed throughout New England, have been numerous. These requests have 

 been invariably filled, as have those for bird-lectures. 



Legislation throughout New England has been carefully watched, and 

 your agent is glad to state that no bills adverse to bird-protection have passed. 



New England, last year, passed through the severest winter in its history. 

 Your agent feels that the request sent out by him that the birds be fed with 

 more than usual care, and which received a hearty response, was effective in 

 saving the lives of many of our winter birds which seemed to have come 

 through the inclement weather successfully. 



The office, with its exhibitions, has been very popular with visiting Junior 

 Classes and their teachers, and the mutual good-will that is established has 

 helped greatly in the Junior work. 



Your agent had the honor to represent the bird clubs and Audubon Societies 

 of New England at Washington during the campaign for the passage of the 

 Enabhng Act, and was present when the House finally voted in favor of this 

 great measure for bird-protection. He is proud to say that there was no dis- 

 senting voice among our New England representatives. 



In closing, he wishes to express his appreciation of the unfailing wisdom 

 and friendly guidance of T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary of the National Associa- 

 tion, and that of Edward Howe Forbush, the New England Agent for the Asso- 

 ciation, to whom such measure of success as has been achieved is largely due. 



