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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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asant rivalry, as they con-trive their bird-lodges and set them incautiously chosen places, are acquiring,quite unknowingly, powers and qualitiesthat will be of far greater value to themin the future than will their store of orni-thology. Such thoughts, strengthened by re-newed testimony, continue to please andencourage the officers and directors of theNational Association, and the men andwomen who stand with them behind themovement, as they watch its continuedgrowth. And this growth has been notonly continuous, but astonishingly rapid.Each new class formed seems quickly tobecome the center of a group of new classes,as a tree seeds the ground about it untila grove springs up. The development ofinterest and results—in this case identical—is truly astonishing. From its begin-ning in the southern states, in 1910, underMrs. Sages benevolence, to the close of thepresent season, only six years of this workhave passed; yet the totals have grownfrom ten thousand pupils enrolled in one 16)
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A HAPPY JUNIORThis little girl, seven years old, took a special prize in the Franklin, Massachusetts, competition forthis exhibit—her own work. Note the flowers in the front yard, and the smoke coming from thechimney of the bark house. (317) 3i8 Bird - Lore year to one hundred and fifty thousand ina year, and the area covered has spreadover the whole United States. This grati-fying augmentation is owing not only tothe inherent virtue and strength of theidea, and to its usefulness in school-work,but to the continued moral and financialsupport of those who have cooperated sogenerously with the Association in itssustained effort to meet this educationaldemand. It has been by means of such assistancethat the Association has been able to carryforward the extension of the education ofthe young people of the country in theknowledge and love and appreciation ofbirds without detriment to its other en-terprises, for the amount returned by theten-cent fees of the Junior members doesnot go far

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