272 Bird - Lore 
REPORTS OF FIELD AGENTS 
REPORT OF EDWARD HOWE FORBUSH 
Your agent for New England finds the work in this region continually 
growing and increasing, demanding more and more time and strength. 
EDUCATIONAL WORK 
The educational work of the year has consisted (z) in a series of newspaper 
articles, continued from last year, which have been published in about one 
hundred New England newspapers. For the past eight months, most of these 
articles have been devoted to the protection of game in New England. This 
series will be finished within the next three months. (2) A large correspondence 
has been maintained with teachers who are interested in introducing bird 
work in the schools. The building of bird-houses by children in the manual- 
training schools is growing more popular. (3) The demand for lectures is 
greater than ever, and, if this demand were fully supplied, it would require 
the entire time of one man in Massachusetts alone. Your agent has been 
able to give forty lectures during the year before schools, farmers’ and sports- 
men’s organizations, Audubon Societies, and Women’s clubs mainly, in Massa- 
chusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and New Jersey. The audiences 
aggregated altogether about 14,000 people. These lectures were all illus- 
trated by lantern slides or charts. 
LAW ENFORCEMENT 
There have been many complaints, particularly in Massachusetts, in 
regard to the non-enforcement of the laws protecting game and birds. Your 
agent has called the attention of the law officers to many such complaints, 
and has done a good deal of educational work among the law-breaking gun- 
ners. 
The hunters’ license law, which went into effect a year ago, has greatly 
reduced the number of foreigners who hunt openly with guns, for very few of 
them have taken out licenses. Probably this law kept about twenty thousand 
such hunters out of the woods during the first year. Now, however, complaints 
are coming in that many foreigners, particularly Italians, are using bird-lime 
or snares, and hunting birds with cane guns and other weapons which they 
can conceal about their persons. Game wardens are too few in number, and 
sometimes too inactive. What is needed now is effective enforcement of the 
laws. 
