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the State Audubon Society, there would be no organized 

 effort in the direction of this important work. 



Reports from Charleston show that the work of the 

 natural history society of the Charleston Museum in fos- 

 tering bird is most valuable. Several reports from differ- 

 ent sections of the State bear witness to the effective work 

 done in the interest of bird protection a few years ago by 

 Mr. B. F. Taylor, president, and Mr. James Henry Rice, 

 secretairy, of the State Audubon Society. As field agent 

 for the National Association of Audubon Societies, Mr. 

 Rice carried on an important campaign for the study and 

 protection of birds. 



The attention of teachers and bird students is called to 

 the valuable work being done in cooperation with the 

 schools of the country by the National Association of Au- 

 (fubon Societies thru its secrstary, Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, 

 1974 Broadway, New York, in the formation of junior 

 audobon classes. By paying only ten cents each child may 

 become a member of a junior audubon class whose object 

 will be to study and protect wild birds. This money is 

 sent in to Secretary Pearson by the teacher and each child 

 receives the beautiful audubon button and a set of ten 

 colored pictures with outline drawings and descriptive 

 leaflets. The teacher receives a year's subscription to 

 "Bird-Lore," the best bird magazine published. 



Bird study is so necessary it should be compulsory in 

 the schools. Bird study is of so much importance to agri- 

 culture it should assuredly form a part of any course of 

 instruction to farmers. It is just as necessary and per- 

 haps more so, to have a State ornithologist as it is to have 

 a State forester, geologist or entomologist. 



The three agencies thru which this knowledge could be 

 spread abroad are the public schools, farm demonstration 

 work and newspapers. State boards of agriculture, farm- 

 ers' unions, agricultural societies, educational institutions, 

 sportsmen's organizations and federations of women's 

 clubs should give active support to all meaures which will 

 help to maintain or increase all kinds of wild birds. 



