6. Make a turtle trap and catch a turtle in it.
7. Make a six-foot leader of clean gut^ with smooth knots to stand a strain of five pounds.
8. Take with the fly, unassisted, a three-pound trout, land-locked salmon, or bass, or a twelve-pound salmon, on a rod not more than five ounces in weight.
9. Or else take on a rod, without assistance in hooking, playing, or landing a trout, black bass, pike (muskallonge), grayling, salmon, bluefish, weakfish, striped bass, kingfisb, sheepshead, or other game fish, whose weight in pounds equals or exceeds that of the rod in ounces.
10. Cast a fly with a rod of five ounces, or less, not over ten feet long, sixty-five feet. Or, with one quarter of an ounce dummy frog, five-foot rod, outdoors overhead casting, tournament style, send it eighty feet if under eighteen, one hundred and ten if over.
11. Swim a hundred yards.
12. Paddle (single) a canoe one mile in twelve minutes.
13. Row without help one mile in ten minutes.
Food Craft
(Midjim)
The Degree of Foodcrafter may be conferred on any one who takes ten of these tests:
1. Know a balanced diet for daily living that will meet requirements of the body.
2. Know the value of cereals and the proper preparation of corn, wheat, rice, barley, and rye for bread and porridges, etc.
3. Cook in camp or at home for a week for four people.
4. Understand the terms proteids, carbohydrates, and tell which foods contain them, in what proportion, and whether available for the human body and whether easily assimilated.
5. Know a balanced vegetarian diet and prepare menus for same for a week.
6. Know the local wild plants available for salads and prepare a salad of same.
7. Dry sweet green com for winter use, either in sun or in oven. Other vegetable may be substituted, if dried in same way.
8. Dry any fruits for winter use — apples, peaches, cherries, etc.
