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Show .v , NEW BRANCHES OF 8COUTINQ. Thirteen Rome (N. Y.) scouts recently organized themselves luto an Archery club, making bows and arrows ar-rows for themselve. One of the most striking scout displays In connection with a sportsman show In Now York was an archery demonstration given j by a Manhattan troop, with old English yew bows. Archery is a fascinating fas-cinating recreation and is incidentally splendid training in nccuracy, observa-Uon observa-Uon and co-ordtnatlon of mind, eye and muscle. In Ilreeadus, Mont, twenty eight boys have banded together as mounted Boy scouts. All of thera havo horses. Troop 12 of Wllkcsbarre,' Pa. has become so Interested in forestry through tho forest guide movement that It Is making a special study nf the subject under the guidance of an expert forester. Twenty-flvo of Ok? troop ore forest guides, dedicated to wild llfo conservation and the prevention preven-tion of forest fires, by nctlve personal service nnd by propaganda. |