374 Bird - Lore 



The Society also worked with the Michigan Association and Camp- Fire 

 Club in securing the passage of an improved game law. 



More than three hundred schools in the state have been supplied with 

 literature. Much of the work has been made possible through the generosity 

 of Mr. Henry Ford, of Detroit. Mr. Ford has cooperated with President 

 Butler in having nesting-boxes put up to the number of five hundred, and also 

 in placing out winter- feeding stations and supplying food. 



Miss Clara Bates, of Traverse City; Mrs. Edith Munger, of Hart; John 

 Watkins, of Calumet; Mrs. Belle M. Perry, of Charlotte, and Grace Greenwood 

 Browne, of Harbor Beach, have prepared numerous articles for the press on 

 birds and their protection, and called the attention of the public to the Audu- 

 bon Society and its mission. The Secretary has given bird lectures before 

 Women's Clubs, Schools, Farmers' Institutes and Summer Assemblies. She 

 was instrumental in interesting the Michigan State Federation of Women's 

 Clubs in the study of birds. At the present time, she is Chairman of the Civic 

 Department in the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs, and of the 

 different committees comprising her department are the Audubon Committee 

 and the Humane Committee, these cooperating with the State Audubon and 

 State Humane Associations. The Secretary has addressed more than one 

 hundred and iifty schools, thereby reaching hundreds of children, and placing 

 literature in the hands of more than six hundred teachers. She has also 

 given prizes for the best-built and most practical bird-houses at three county 

 fairs, and has written many articles for the press, as well as distributing one 

 thousand badges among school children. 



The club women throughout Michigan are doing a good work for the 

 Audubon Society, by placing a Bird Day program in their club calendar, 

 and studying birds from an educational, aesthetic and economical standpoint. 

 As there are eighteen thousand club women in Michigan, their influence is 

 sweeping with great force over the state. Very few, if any, club women wear 

 bird feathers for hat adornment; occasionally one who has not heard of the 

 Audubon movement comes out so adorned, but is promptly furnished with 

 a supply of literature for her enlightenment. 



Mr. Charles Daniel, of Detroit, offered prizes for essays written by a 

 school-boy or girl under eighteen years of age: the first prize of $20 for the 

 best essay written on song and insectivorous birds; the second prize of $15 

 for the best essay written on bird-protection; and a third prize of $10 for the 

 best essay written on how to attract and feed the birds in winter. This attracted 

 much attention, not only on the part of children, but also of teachers and 

 parents. Mr. Henry Ford is contributing sufficient to employ Mr. Butler 

 as legal adviser and financial agent, to raise funds to place the Society on a 

 sustaining basis. 



Headquarters for the Society have been opened in Mr. Butler's office, in 

 Detroit. It is planned to take a census of the wild life of the state, and to 



