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3. Prizes as a Stimulus to Competition. 



Prizes are being quite generally offered in connection with the emergency 

 gardens which now occupy the attention of every community. In Rhode 

 Island the School Garden Committee awards a banner for the best school 

 garden in the state. In the city of Providence the Retail Merchants Associa- 

 tion will distribute this year about fifteen hundred dollars in various prizes for 

 results achieved in gardening. 



The School Department of Bird-Lore has as yet done little in the way of 

 encouraging competition in bird-work by means of prizes. It may, however, 

 as space permits, print the names of those Junior Audubon Society members 

 who win prizes in bird-house contests or other contests connected with the 

 study and protection of birds. State Audubon Societies would do well to 

 offer, from time to time, some prize or special token of approbation or encour- 

 agement in their respective states to members, particularly Junior members, 

 who accomplish results in any line of bird- work worthy of such commendation. 



4. Planting Food-Supplies for Birds. 



In connection with gardens, plant shrubs, herbs, etc., suitable for the 

 natural food-supply of beneficial birds. 



See Hodge: 'Nature-Study and Life,' p. 323; 'Food Chart of Our Common Birds.' 



Baynes: 'Wild Bird Guests,' pp. 173-91. 



Forbush: 'Useful Birds and Their Protection,' pp. 372-422; 'Game Birds, Wild- 

 fowl and Shore Birds,' pp. 563-88; 'Food Plants to Attract Birds and Protect Fruit,' 

 Circular No. 49, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. 



McAtee: 'Three Important Wild Duck Foods,' Circular No. 81, Bureau of Bio- 

 logical Survey, U. S. Dept. of Agr. 



Job: 'Propagation of Wild Birds.' 



Ladd: 'How to Attract Wild Birds About the Home,' Bird Protective Society, 

 Greenwich, Conn. 



First Report of the Brush Hill Bird Club, Milton, Mass. 1914. Pp. 19-32. 



JUNIOR AUDUBON WORK 

 For Teachers and Pupils 



Exercise XXXIII : Correlated with Music, Gardening, and Reading 

 Bird-Music. Part II 



It is an inspiring thought that since the beginning of Junior Audubon So- 

 cieties, six years ago, 584,254 children have been organized as members in a 

 total of 29,052 Junior Audubon Clubs. To-day we need every one of these boys 

 and girls to be alert, ready, and earnest to do his or her part for the welfare of 

 the world. The duty that comes may be a welcome task or a dreaded one. 

 It may call for real work and little play. It may interfere with vacation plans 

 upon which some have set their hearts. 



Let me tell you a secret which will help you over every hard place. The 

 duty done with a song in the heart is not a duty at all but a joy. When the 



