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9. Have inoculated seeds of clovers, cowpeas, etc., and grown demonstration strips and compare the increase of nodules on roots of inoculated plants.
10. Do all the work in a successful flower, or fruit and vegetable garden, not less than twenty feet by twenty feet.
11. Raise half a dozen each of five of the following plants: cucumber, tomato, egg plant, pumpkin, melon, pepper, cabbage, cauliflower, celery.
12. Have four window boxes, at least 24 x 8 inches, or equivalent, of successful growing plants, planted and cared for by self, for four months.
13. Make a garden calendar, stating the order of bloom, so that from April to September there is a flower for each week.
14. Have a successful perennial vegetable garden — rhubarb, asparagus, mint, horseradish, etc.
15. Send a bouquet a week to hospital or “shut-in” or Flower Guild, from own flower-beds for six months.
16. Keep a garden in good shape, clean and trim all summer.
Fisherman
(Gagoiked)
The Degree of Fisherman may be conferred on any one who takes nine of these tests:
1. Catch and name ten different species of fish: salmon or trout to be taken with flies; bass, pickerel, or pike to be caught with rod or reel, muskallonge to be caught by trolling.
2. Make a bait rod of three joints, straight and sound, fourteen ounces or less in weight, ten feet or less in length, to stand a strain of one and a half pounds at the tip, 13 pounds at the grip; or else make a jointed fly-rod 8 to 10 feet long, 4 to 8 ounces in weight, capable of casting a fly sixty feet.
3. Name and describe twenty-five different species of fish found in North American waters, and give a list of at least five of the fishes ascertained to inhabit a given body of water.
4. Give the history of the young of any species of wild fish from the time of hatching until the adult stage is reached.
