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NATURE LORE-BLUE HONORS
Trees: Identify and describe any
fifteen trees in such a way as to assure future
recognition:
500 In Summer.
501 In Winter.
502 Ten additional trees.
503 Plant properly five trees at
least one foot high where they are needed.
504 Flowers: Identify and describe
twenty wild flowers.
505 Identify and describe fifteen
additional wild flowers. R
506 Ferns: Identify and describe
ten ferns. R
507 Grasses: Identify and describe
ten grasses. R
508 Mosses: Identify and describe
ten mosses. R
509 Birds: Identify and describe
twenty wild birds. R
510 Identify and describe fifteen
additional wild birds. R
511 Erect a bird box and have it
used. R
512 Tell the value of two birds to
man from personal observations and notes. R
513 Keep notes from personal
observation of the raising of a family of birds. R
514 Have a "lunch
counter" used by at least four kinds of birds. R
515 Butterflies: Identify and
describe ten butterflies. R
516 Moths: Identify and describe
ten moths. R
517 Stars: Know the planets and
seven constellations and their stories.
518 Tramp Lore: Make a satisfactory
note book from your own observations while on tramps.
This may be on stones, birds, trees, streams, erosion of
the earth, or habits of animals. R
519 Garden: Do all the work in a
successful garden. This may be for use or beauty, or
both. R
520 Keep written records of
completion of different divisions of work and financial
account of expenses. R
521 Write history of garden at end
of season, not less than 1500 words. R
522 Identify ten common weeds; tell
how to remove and eradicate them.
523 Identify ten harmful garden
bugs and insects, and tell how to combat them.
524 Raise flowers or vegetables in
accordance with modern principles, getting cash results,
e. g., violets, strawberries, celery, mushrooms. R
525 Have a successful window garden
properly balanced in color or a garden furnishing
garnishing for the table. Practical results must be
secured.
526 Raise a crop of sweet corn,
popcorn, or potatoes. R
527 Make a record of processes,
history of growth, cost, gain, or loss.
528 Raise at least two vegetables:
Make note book record of growth and cost. R
529 Can, pickle, and preserve the
product to an amount of two quarts canned, two quarts
pickled and two quarts preserved. R
Carry on experimental gardening as
follows:
530 (a) Plant a plot with seed
treated with bacteria solution and another plot with
seed not so treated. Record results as to amount of
crop, size of product, taste and palatableness. R
531 (b) Plant a plot with pedigreed
seeds and another plot with unpedigreed seeds. Record
results. R
532 (c) Plant two plots. Treat one
by dry farming methods, and the other by usual methods.
Record results.
533 (d) Make tests of the value of
irrigation.
534 Distinguish eight varieties of
apples, and tell the good and weak points of each.
535 Be a member of a Corn and
Tomato Canning Club, canning two dozen quart jars of
products raised yourself.
(For information write the
Department of Agriculture at Washington, under whose
supervision these clubs have been arranged. They aim to
make the girls financially independent.)
536 Bees: Do all the work of the
successful hive of bees for a season and know the habits
of honey bees.
537 Animals: Demonstrate the nature
and value of some one factor in heredity or environment
in some strain of animals, e.g., chickens, dogs. (Effect
of health, breeding, endurance, length of life, color,
form or effects of altered food, exercise, out of
doors.) R
538 Be a member of a Girls' Poultry
Club and clear at least $10 in one year. (See note
under Garden: Canning Clubs.)
539 Hatch and raise to six weeks
one dozen chickens from fifteen eggs set under a hen or
in an incubator. R
540 Distinguish six varieties of
hens, and tell the good and weak points of each
variety.
541 Distinguish six varieties of
cattle, and tell the good and weak points of each
variety.
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