ARBOR AND BIRD DAY

A PROCLAMATION

BY THE GOVERNOR

BY

OY LEGISLATIVE ENACTMENT the Governor is authorized to set apart one day in the year to be known as Arbor and Bird Day.

The beneficent results of this enactment are everywhere apparent. Not only are the school grounds and public parks of the State being made attractive by tree planting, and a deep interest in the preservation of our song birds being awakened among the young, but there is coming to be, among the people of the State generally, a clearer understanding of the economic value of forest and bird preservation.

In order that this interest in the forest and birds may be maintained, I, EDWARD SCOFIELD, Governor of Wisconsin, by the authority vested in me by the legislature, do hereby set apart and designate

Friday, May 4, 1900, to be Arbor and Bird Day.

It is highly desirable that all of the public schools and the places of learning generally throughout the State, do, upon that day, hold appropriate exercises, to the end that the young may grow into an intelligent appreciation of those attractions with which Nature has endowed our State. and come to discern the close relation existing between beauty and usefulness. Let an effort be made on that day to add in some degree to the attractiveness of all school grounds and public parks, and to impart to the little children, especially, a love for the birds.

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of State to be affixed. Done at the capitol, in the city of Madison, this sixth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred.

By the Governor:

W. H. FROEHLICH,

Secretary of State.

EDWARD SCOFIELD,
Governor.