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cerning bird-needs, such as the proper time to plant bird-gardens, to put out nesting 

 material, or to begin winter feeding. Bird-games are an important feature. 



Occasional special programs should be provided, when bird specialists may be heard, 

 or at which plays, pageants, debates, or mock trials concerning birds may be presented. 



Furnish your local papers with accounts of club activities, timely information, and 

 general bird-news. 



Continue bird-club work if possible during summer, in the form of bird-hikes, pic- 

 nics, and porch parties. Clubs should cooperate, also, making a notable event of the 

 annual Bird and Arbor Day by erecting community bird-houses, feeding-shelves, and 

 fountains. Members should participate also in story-writing and other contests. 



Constitute your club an insurance company which issues policies covering preventable 

 injuries and death to all birds in your district. 



Collections may be made in autumn of vacated bird-nests. Arrange them in groups, 

 accompanying with pictures of the former tenants. Bird-feathers, picked up here and 

 there during molting season, make an interesting collection. Dennison's crepe-paper 

 birds are much used for decoration. 



Classified clippings and stories about birds make a valuable scrap-book. 



Bird illustrations, photographs and colored pictures arranged in an album are 

 enjoyed. 



Posters, indicating birds observed each year by the club, a list of bird-books avail- 

 able in public or school library, a list of plants for bird-gardens, naming local bird 

 enemies, or carrying legends along any line of bird interest should be prepared for 

 school-room use. 



Gather a schoolroom loan-library on birds by bringing albums, scrap-books, and 

 bird-books owned by club members. Suggest bird-books as gifts for birthdays and 

 holidays, consulting the Audubon Leaflets, Bird-Lore, and other published lists for 

 titles. 



Write a courteous letter to the Department of Agriculture at Washington, D. C, 

 requesting copies of Farmers' Bulletins, Numbers 760, 609, 630, 493 sent to your 

 address. 



Study real live birds, beginning with caged birds. Pigeons, or fowl in the school- 

 room, next the common birds in your own dooryard, thus gradually extending your 

 observation and service to the great world of birds in the wide, free, open air. 



[Mrs. Pike, the author, has recently passed away, but her work as 'The Pioneer 

 Bird- Woman of Washington State' will live long, for she organized hundreds of Junior 

 Audubon Societies most successfully. The suggestive outline given above has been used 

 and found of practical value in teaching bird-study, especially in the grades. — A. H. W.] 



A BIRD-HOUSE CONTEST 



The enclosed illustrations of bird-houses may be of interest to readers of 

 Bird-Lore in showing that interest in the welfare of our friends, the birds, is 

 surely increasing. 



They were produced by the cooperation of our very young but promising 

 local Audubon Society and the pupils of the sixth and seventh grades of our 

 public schools. 



Both boys and girls competed, and some of the very clever houses, although 

 not awarded prizes, were built by girls. 



No suggestions were offered, and each house represents the individual 



