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28 5. State how much money would need to be invested at 5 per cent. to earn his weekly allowance of spending money for a year.

Camping

To obtain a merit badge' for Camping a scout must

1. Have slept in the.open or under canvas at different times fifty nights.

2. Have put up a tent alone and ditched it.

3. Have made a bed of wild material and a fire without matches.

4. State how to choose a camp site and how to prepare for 'rain; how to build a latrine (toilet)and how to dispose of the camp garbage and refuse.

5. Know how to construct a raft.

Carpentry

To obtain a 'merit badge for Carpentry a scout must

z. Know the proper way to drive, set and clinch a nail.

2. Know the different kinds of chisels, planes and saws, and how to sharpen and use them.

3. Know the use of the rule, square, level, plumb-line and mitre.

4. Know how to use compasses for scribing both regular and irregular lines.

5. Make an article of furniture with three different standard joints or splices, with at least one surface of highly polished hard .or decorative wood. All work to be done without assistance.

Chemistry To obtain a merit badge for Chemistry a scout must be able to pass the following test:

1. Define physical and chemical change, Which occurs when salt is dissolved in water, milk sours, iron rusts, water boils, iron is magnetized and mercuric oxide is heated above the boiling point of mercury?

2. Give correct tests for oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, chlorine, and.carbon dioxide gases.

3. Could you use the above gases to extinguish fir? How?