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8. Dry any fruits for camp use — apples, peaches, cherries, etc.
9. Know 25 edible mushrooms.
10. Know how to prepare “cottage cheese.”
11. Bake five batches of good bread, one to be in reflector baker; one to be in frying pan.
12. Train a class in camp cooking, showing and making them do it properly.
13. Tell how a camp should protect its foods, milk, meat, and exposed foods.
Forester
The Degree of Forester may be conferred on any one who takes eighteen of these tests:
1. Identify twenty-five kinds of trees when in leaf, or fifteen kinds of deciduous (broad leaf) trees in winter, and tell some of the uses of each.
2. Identify twelve kinds of shrubs.
3. Collect and identify samples of 20 kinds of wood and be able to tell some of their uses and peculiar properties.
4. Determine the height, and estimate the amount of timber, approximately, in five trees of different sizes.
5. State the laws for transplanting, grafting, spraying, and protecting a tree.
6. Make a collection of smoke or blue prints of sixty species of wild flowers, ferns, or grasses dried and mounted in a book and correctly named.
7. Recognize in the forest all important commercial trees in one’s neighborhood.
8. Distinguish the lumber from each and tell for what purpose each is best suited.
9. Recognize the difference in the forest between good and bad logging, giving reasons why one is good and another bad.
10. Tell whether a tree is dying from injury by fire, by insects, by disease, or by a combination of these causes.
11. Know what tools to use in lumbering.
12. Know how to fight fires in hilly or in flat country.
13. Know the effect upon stream-flow of the destruction of forests at head waters.
