The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1923-05-01
ELECT PRIZE
| ESSAYS FROM
ST. MARY'S
|lmes of All Prize Winners
VIII BE Announced
Tomorrow


,,hoIae RI. Wocklc and Mary
!c Whitley were awarded first
yes at st. Mays school for the
h school and seventh and eight
,de respectively in their essays
Birds and their value to our
Immunity" The first prize con-
is OF IS. the second and third
yes of SO and So each respective
Irma Weigel was awarded sec
place among the high school
dents and Richard Horner, third
&c. Second place among the
dc school pupils was awarded to
bina Brown and third place to
zer Hummel
The names Of the students in the
her schools who have won prizes
be announced tomorrow. All the
says have not yet been graded and
ned over to Supt. ii. o. Saxvik.
rhc essays from st. Mary's school
ich were given first place follow:
Nicholas ii. Wolhlc, age seventeen,
Mary's school. Junior year.
THE VALUE OF BIRDS
When Il crisis approaches, it
Guild be needed. Recent reports
ow that unless we afford quick
d effective protection to our birds,
rcparable damage may result to-
r country.
Special Investigations made by
ornaday showed that the average
crease in bird life from 1883 to
9S was forty six percent, Reports
ON Maine, Rhode Island, Indiana,
ennsylvania, North Dakota, Geor-
IA, Louisiana, and Texas showed
at more than one half their birds
nd disappeared.
A careful study reveals the abb
Mute necessity of birds from the
onomic view point at least.
Take the aesthetic view point in
considerations: Who does not
pve birds for what they are, for
heir beautiful plumagc and their
|weot music? What a change would
here be if all birds would sudden
become extinct!
Then the economic view point is
|ven more worthy of consideration.
With the exception of the English
barrow, the cow-bird, two species
II hawks, and the horned owl, all
irds have proved friends to man.
| hese exceptions are Il detriment to
humanity; the English sparrow at
lacks not only buds and blossoms
ut also grapes, berries, etc. The
Examination of five hundred spar
lows, which were shot and opened,
bowed that three fourths had eat
IN no worms whatever Therefore
parrows should be destroyed.
Birds are in general beneficial to
han. In 1874 the introduction of
'irds served to quell the Rocky
Mountain locust pest which had
aused $40,00O,000. damages. An
examination conducted by Aughey
howed that for one meal six robins
tic two hundred sixty five locusts,
i've catbirds ate one hundred fifty
wo locusts, three blue birds ate
Ixty seven, nine chickadees ate four
hundred eighty one; twenty swal-
ows ate five hundred sixty five,
light fickers ate five hundred fifty
WO.
Another examination by Professor
Forbes shows that canker worms
make up twenty percent of the ro-
inns food, fifteen percent of the cat
'ird's, sixty six percent of the
yarbler's, forty percent of the
uneo's, sixty percent of the chick
dee's, and seventy five percent of
he black billed cuckoo's.
Many of these insectivorous birds
re found in our community. Are
hey not worthy of our protection?
1t is lamentablc fact that ZOO
ogy is not a required subject in
ur high schools IN our day for the
'alue of geological knowledge can
ot be overestimatcd.
Ignorance is not always bliss:
concerning the food of
wis caused the legislature of Penn
Elvania iT 1885 to pass a law which
esulted in a $1,000,00O loss to that
tate
This clearly proves birds ought to
&c afforded every protection and
omfort, because they are so neccs-
airy to us.