FOREWORD 



From year to year the Department of Game and Fish, 

 through the wisdom and foresight of its Commissioner, 

 prepares and sends out an elaborate bulletin giving explicit 

 information and material for the observance of Bird Day 

 in our public schools. 



This pamphlet, which is a work of art, is eagerly sought 

 and used in every county and most of the schools of the 

 State. No other agency is doing so much to conserve our 

 birds and to preserve in our children the sympathetic in- 

 stinct which statutes and constitutions are powerless to incul- 

 cate. It is with exceeding gratification, therefore, that I 

 designate Friday, May 7, as Bird Day for Alabama schools 

 and in so doing I desire to unreservedly commend the work 

 and to again bespeak on the part of the teachers of the State 

 a wider and saner attitude towards God's creatures every- 

 where, which must of necessity result from a State-wide 

 compliance with the plan and purpose of this book. 



Sincerely, 



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Supt. of Education. 



