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40 2. The six kinds of knots quickly.

3. Lash spars properly together for scaffolding.

4. Buid a modern bridge or 'derrick."

5. Make a camp kitchen.

6. Build a shack of one kind or another. suitable for three occupants.

Plumbing

To. obtain a merit badge for Plumbing a scout must

1. Be able to make wiped and blazed joints.

2. Repair a burst pipe.

3. Mend a ball or faucet tap.

4. Understand the ordinary hot and cold water system of a house.

Poultry Farming

To obtain a merit badge for Poultry Farming a scout must

1. Have a knowledge of incubators, foster-mothers, sanitary fowl houses, and coops and runs.

2. Understand rearing, feeding, killing, and dressing birds for market.

3. Be able to pack birds' and eggs for market.

4. Raise a brood of not less than ten chickens.

5. Report his observation and study of the hen, turkey, duck, and goose.

Printing

To ,obtain a merit badge for Printing a scout must

1. Know the names of ten different kinds of type and ten sizes of paper.

2. Be able to compose by hand or machines.

3. Understand the use of hand or power printing machines.

4. Print a handbill set up by himself.

5. Be able to read and mark proof correctly.

Public Health

To obtain a merit badge for Public Health a scout must

1. State what the chief causes of each of* the following disease are: tuberculosis, typhoid, malaria.