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 266 Bird - Lore W. C. T. U., at Hudson. The local secretary at Fair Haven, who is also superintendent of W. C. T. U. of Cayuga county, has distributed thou- sands of leaflets throughout the county. She reports that 'fifteen Unions are doing work; perhaps thirty-five different schools have been giving out literature. I am working in union with the Auburn Humane Club, and we have systematized the work and will try to reach every town in Cayuga county. The increased interest is surprising.' "The enthusiastic local secretary in Amsterdam has shown great energy in traveling from town to town, calling upon editors and clergymen, and has been very successful in arousing interest and in securing new local secretaries. Many reports of Bird Day exercises were received, but the observance is not obligatory, as it should be. Good news, however, is con- tained in the new State Syllabus for the schools. In all grades of school work, bird study in some form is introduced. Many teachers are taking up a twenty weeks' course of nature study. Applications are already coming in for leaflets to meet their needs. "In the coming year, all energies must be directed to encouraging and developing the work already undertaken, along the lines indicated; through established organizations of various kinds to reach throughout each county; to use every effort to strengthen the resources of the Society, that the demands for literature, to be placed where it will be read and studied to the best advantage, may be fully met; and, most important of all, to call forth all the influence the Society can wield to secure a Bird Day Amendment to the Arbor Day Law, that hereafter no public school in the state may fail to observe and enjoy ' Bird-Day.' " — Miss Emma H. LOCKWOOD, Secretary. North Carolina. — " The Audubon Society work in North Carolina the past year has been attended with marked results. The work of cultivating general interest has gone steadily forward, and evidences on every hand point to a healthy and most satisfactory growth of public sentiment. Literature on the value of insect-eating birds and the importance of preserving game- birds and animals from undue killing has been carefully and systematically distilled in all of the ninety-seven counties in the state. " More than one million five hundred thousand pages of printed infor- mation have thus been given to the public. About five hundred books on bird and animal life are in constant use in the circulating libraries of the Society. Digests of the game laws on cloth have been printed and posted in all quarters of North Carolina. Forty-six wardens have been employed to do this work and to look after the enforcement of the laws. These agents of the Society brought ninety-one prosecutions in the state courts, and in eighty-four cases convictions were secured. Fifty-eight of these were for violating game laws, and twenty-six for killing non-game birds.