The Bozeman courier. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1919-1954, 1927-04-15
OUR WOMEN--- Club Women
Take An Active Part IN Protection
of The Forests and All Wild Life

greatly needed for county and state, they
cannot afford to overlook the ACCESSIBILITY
Of having plenty of parks in their re-
Spective cities or villages. Of this, Great
Falls is an example that may we'll be fol-
lowed. While some of her parks were in
the original plan Of the city, several other
extensive ones have been added, it being
recognized that aside from their attractive
ness, their establishment is a good bust
ness proposition.
It has been claimed, from the time Of
their first showing, that movies could be
used to advantage for educational purposes.
In Butte, its citizens are acting on this
suppOsitiOn in every other Saturday mat
inees for school children Of grammar
school age, to be given at the RialtO
throughout the year. A small admission
fee is charged to meet expenses, and what
ever is received over this amount will be
donated by Manager Sullivan to the milk
fund.
Before the movies are given, they are
passed upon by a committee Of citizens,
with each fortnight a different committee
assigned for this work. The school board
has permitted the civic organizations to
announce through the school teachers the
programs, and the parOchial schools are
cooperating in the work.
One week, the program consisted OF the
film, THE Discovery OF America by Co
lumbus," a news reel, another educational
feature, and a comedy, which, we trust
was not of the slap-stick variety.
If there was something of this kind IN
dertaken in all of our cities and children
of the age mentioned forbidden to attend
other movies, no one can doubt 1t would
be vastly to the advantage or the children
and later to the community by the pre-
~ventiOn of crime. Both men and women
should take this matter under cOnsidera-
ton.
I will add that these Butte shows are
veritable matinees, being held from the
hours of IL to 1 o'clock.
The story of Mrs. J.. l.. Ruckman's sue
cess in raising chickens proves that WOmeT
can do well at this business. The Ruck-
mans are ranchers living near LewistOwn
and are engaged in diversified farming
keep II cows and raise chickens. Mrs
Ruckman is in charge Of the latter, and
until last year was skeptical as to there
being any profit in poultry raising on &C
count of the difficulty of producing eggs
Last spring she bought 500 grade Leg
horn chicks. OF this number so died. WheI
the ROSTERS were nine weeks old, anC
weighed a pound and a half, she sold par
of them for 30 cents a pound, and the re
mainder Of the cOckerels were marketed
later at 80 cents a pound.
The pulletS began to lay in August ant
considerably kept right on doing so, ex
cept for a short vacation while they wer
mOulting. From this flock twelve dOzeI
eggs are sold daily at 30 cents a dozen.
The hens are kept penned all of the time
which Mrs. Ruckman thinks is necessar
in this part of the country. No rooster
Delng kept, the eggs are lnIefCle, an I'm
pOrtant item, undoubtedly, in their sale
balanced ration fed for eggs is 10
pounds oats, 100 pounds corn, 100 pound
wheat, and 80 pounds of meat scrap, grOun
very fine. In addition to this green food
given in the form of cabbage, alfalfa leaves
mangle beets, together with oyster she
and ground rock for grit. The grain r.
ton to be scattered in the straw fC
scratch feed, is made up of oats and corr
allowing u pounds TO a hundred hens,
Four MissOula girls, high school student
have won the prizes for poetry offered b
the American College Quill club Of Il
: University of Colorado. This they did
competition with man other high schOl
students in five states.
The names of the successful contestant
; are: winner of first prize, Alicia O'DOnnel
with the subject Dawn" her prize bein
r a silver cup; second prize winner, Ma.
: garet Stevens, subject "Spring in the FO.
4 est; third winner, Marie Pearson, subje
2 Logic; and the fourth in this remarI
: able list was Katherine Moore, who r
ceived honorable mention for "Cherl
Blossoms"
This is certainly a good record for OF
school. "IS Montana destined in the f
ture to be the literary center Of the Unite
States?" seems a pertinent inquiry.