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...such as Sleeping Beauty, Red Riding Hood, Old Mother Hubbard, etc. (acting the story or rhyme out in pantomime).

18. Put on shadow charades in camp or shadow moving pictures with sheet and lantern.

19. Take part in folk dancing at three public events.

Farmer

(Kitigewin)

The Degree of Farmer may be conferred on any one who takes nineteen of these tests:

1. Explain the nature of soil, its texture and need of water and air.

2. Describe four different kinds of soil; explain what these lack, and how it should be added to make agriculture successful.

3. State how to decide what fertilizer is needed in a given soil.

4. Mention ten leading standard fertilizers, and indicate their peculiar quaUties and value.

5. Mention all the leading crops of your neighborhood. Tell how you would rotate them and why.

6. State when to sow wheat, oats, rye, barley, buckwheat, and when to reap each.

7. State when to sow peas, corn, millet, kaffir corn, and when to reap each.

8. State when to plant turnips, potatoes, and carrots; tell how you would rotate them and why?

9. State when to sow clover alfalfa, timothy, tobacco, and tell how you would rotate each and why.

10. Plow ten acres of land.

11. Harrow ten acres of land.

12. Seed down ten acres of land.

13. Weed down ten acres of land.

14. Harvest ten acres of land.

15. Cut, make, and harvest ten acres of hay.

16. Describe the methods and value of drainage.

17. Explain the value and best use of stable manure.

18. Make a seed tester and test the germination of three kinds of crop seeds, one hundred seeds of each kind. "Rag-baby" tester for corn.

19. State why a farmer should watch the United States weather reports.

20. State why a farmer should watch the market.