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are our greatest assets, cultivating the birds is not only a privilege but a neces- 

 sity. If extra food, such as millet, rye, oats, and sunflowers are planted in 

 vacant lots and in the individual gardens and if fresh water is provided in 

 shallow basins, and nesting-boxes put up, the birds will come of themselves 

 and destroy enormous quantities of injurious insects. Every opportunity has 

 been taken to bring home the wartime lesson of conservation. It was urged last 

 spring and summer, in our exhibit, in lectures to the children, in notices in 

 the regular fortnightly bulletin, and in the small lamp-post bulletins. It was 

 still further emphasized when Ernest Thompson Seton gave his lecture on 

 "Wild Life" under the auspices of the Audubon Society on April 26, 1918. 

 Even the annual bills for dues carried the slogan, "Attract the Birds and 

 Save the Gardens." — Mary Eastwood Knevels, Secretary. 



Franklin (N. Y.) Marsh Wren Club. — Our Club was organized in the 

 summer of 1907. We are intensely active in the study of bird-life. Our Society 

 motto is "Protection." Our native birds are well known to nearly all the 



BRIDGET, THE RUFFED GROUSE 

 Special pet of the Marsh Wren Club at Franklin, New York 



members, not only by sight but by their songs as well. At present we are making 

 a systematic study of the birds. Recently we studied the "Bills and Beaks" 

 of birds. Our last meeting was given to the "Tongues of Birds." The material 

 for this study was presented to our President by Dr. F. A. Lucas. 



We have been made happy by the visits of several birds which are rare in 



