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HISTORY A^■l) WORK OF THE 
many persons always wait for a ])rocession to move before 
they fall in. 
\\ hen your senior section is organized, take up the work 
in the schools. You will hud the teachers in hearty sym- 
pathy with the movement. Our plan is to form a Junior 
society of the pupils of the schools. 
Educational leaflets issued by the National Committee of 
Audubon Societies and leaflets issued by the Michigan So- 
ciety, relating to the work as it progresses, will be mailed to 
all applicants. 
W hen a sufticient number of local societies are organized 
it is planned to federate them as a State society. 
An Audubon Society is needed in every county in the 
State. In some localities men are engaged in killing song- 
birds for the millinery trade, nests of our most useful and 
beautiful species are robbed by collectors frequently for gain, 
and by boys for “sport,” and reports have come that in 
certain counties, unguarded by wardens, the laws protect- 
ing game birds and the meadow-lark are openly violated. 
There are many thousands of good friends of the birds in 
Michigan, but they can do little in the way of effective pro- 
tective work save by organized effort. 
Give a little of your time to the pressing needs of this 
humane cause and you will be paid a thousand fold. The 
songs of the birds will be richer and the return of the 
migrants will bring more pleasure when you feel that you 
have done your part to shield them from the cruel, the mer- 
cenary and the thoughtless, who would deprive our State not 
only of one of its chief ornaments and attractions, but of one 
of the best economic forces in the State and nation. 
By courtesy of Shield’s Magazine. 
Robin Feeding Young. 
