Bird lore - Project Puffin

Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 449
abandoned. It was then decided to conduct a vigorous campaign, by corre-
spondence, for new members. This was so successfully carried out that the
membership was more than tripled between February and July. State game-
wardens were especially urged to join, and about twenty became members.
The larger part of the more than a thousand letters sent out from the office
during the year were written during this campaign. This increased enroll-
ment made our Society feel so rich that it took a membership in the National
Association.
The Upper Peninsula having never been visited by Audubon workers, the
president was very glad to respond to an invitation in June from a generous
and devoted bird-lover, Mrs. A. S. Putman, of Manistique, to do some work
in her city with all expenses paid. Talks were given in all the schools there, and
at other organizations, and in the nearby villages. The Marquette Normal
School was then visited, and the classes in nature-study and agriculture were
addressed on the value of birds to agriculture. Twenty lectures were given in
this new territory, and thus more than 2,500 persons were reached with the
message.
Exhibits of bird-houses, cat-guards, feeding-devices, charts, pictures, and
literature were placed at all the large state meetings of teachers, farmers, etc.,
as well as at county and state fairs. Cat-guards were especially demonstrated
before the Wild Life Conservation Association at Saginaw, where several
thousand persons visited the Audubon booth every day. 'Cat Tale' circulars,
calling attention to the destruction of birds by cats, were distributed in great
numbers—in fact about 10,000 of these circulars have been scattered about
the state the past year—and the Society hopes by this means to educate the
public to the need of a cat-license law, and its proper enforcement.
Farmers are learning to appreciate their bird-friends, and are forming Audu-
bon clubs auxiliary to their own organizations. The president was asked to
speak before the lecturers of the State Grange at its annual meeting at Ann
Arbor last December; and when she stopped at the expiration of her allotted
twenty minutes a vigorous protest arose, and a request was made that the
speaker be given time to use the whole sixty slides and give the entire lecture
at the main meeting in the auditorium that evening. Here she was greeted by
3,000 farmers—the largest and one of the most enthusiastic audiences before
whom she has ever spoken.
The Star Audubon Club of Three Rivers, had a 'tag day' to raise money to
carry on the work in their community. The tags were pretty paper birds made
by the boys and girls of the Club.
Telegrams and letters were sent to our Congressmen and Senators asking
them to work and vote for the measure to sustain the Migratory Bird Law
and for the ratitication of the treaty between Great Britain and the United
States for the enforcement of this law in our country and in Canada. Through
the columns of the Audubon Department of The Michigan Sportsman we have