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SCOUTING.
AGRICULTURAL BULLETINS FOR
SCOUTS
Below is a printed list of bulletins issued
by the United States Department of Agri-
culture and selected as of special interest
to scouts. They can be procured free as
long as the supply lasts on application
to any senator, representatvie, delegate in
Congress, or to the Secretary of Agriculture,
Washington, U. C.
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Title
Feeding of Farm Animals
Meats: Composition and Cooking
Tree Planting on Rural School Grounds
Primer of Forestry. Part 1: The Forest
Horseshoeing
School Garden
Home Vegetable Garden
Primer of Forestry. Part 2: Practical Fores-
try
How to Destroy Rats
Replanning a Farm for Profit
Care of Food in the Home
Soil Conservation
Care of Milk and its use in the Home
Remedies and Preventives against Mosqui-
toes
Bees
Our Grosbeaks and their Value to Agricul-
ture
Frames as a Factor in Truck Growing
Tuberculosis
Use of Paint on the Farm
How to Prevent Typhoid Fever
Methods of Disinfecting Stables
Bapteria in Milk
English Sparrow as a Pest
Raising Belgian Hares and Other Rabbits
Some Common Game, Aquatic, and Rapa-
cious Birds in Relation to Man
Comb Honey
Benefits of Improved Roads
Food of some well-known Birds of Forest,
Farm and Garden
Farm Bookkeeping
Hints to Poultry Raisers
Larkspur, or "Poison Weed"
Farm Buttermaking
Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs
Boys' Pig Clubs
Poultry House Construction
Natural and Artificial Incubation of Hen's
Eggs
Collection and Preservation of Plant Material
for Use in the Study of Agriculture
Clean Milk! Production and Handling
Bird Houses and How to Build Them
How to Attract Birds in Northeastern United
States
Natural and Artificial Brooding of Chickens
Common Birds Useful to Farmers
Laboratory Exercises in Farm Mechanics for
Agricultural High Schools
Home Garden in the South
Weeds: How to Control Them
Method of Analyzing the Farm Business
House Flies
Flees as Pests of Men and Animals
Plan for a Small Dairy House
Outdoor Wintering of Bees
Cottontail Rabbits in Relation to Trees and
Farm Crops
{ Efficient Work at Preparedness Parade
Recognition of the assistance rendered by
Toledo, Ohio, scouts during the prepared-
ness parade recently held in that city has
come in the form of two letters referred
to Headquarters by Scout Executive J. St.
Clair Mendenhall.
One of these letters is from the "Toledo
Transportation Club," expressing "sincere
thanks for the kindness and thoughtfulness
of the scouts in assisting, as they did,
toward the comfort and pleasure of the
members of the Club who marched in the
preparedness parade."
The other letter is from the Secretary of
the United Commercial Travelers, who
writes: "We could not help but notice the
very efficient way in which the boy scouts
performed their work."
Instruction in Knots, Splices and Ham-
mock-Making.
Peter T. Sharp, Jr., 290 Broadway, New
York City (telephone Worth 3380), will
accept week-end engagements for teaching
knots, splices and hammock making in scout
camps. The camps will be expected to pro-
vide travelling expenses, entertainment and
materials, but Mr. Sharp will make no
charge for his services.
HOW TO GET REAL HELP FROM OUTSIDERS
By Merritt L. Oxenham, Scoutmaster Troop 21, Brooklyn; N. Y.
C~> IVE a definite job to each man—and discovered a very capable instructor. In
■w then have him watch that job. This the same way definite, requests are made to
is the plan that has brought results in the other members of the committee, so that
Troop 21, Brooklyn. the willingness of each man may find ex-
When they grew from two patrols to a pression in ways beneficial to the troop,
troop of four or five patrols it was neces- The scouts themselves hold offices as :
sary to bring in outside assistance to help corresponding secretary, recording secre-
in the work. This was accomplished by tary, editor, assistant editor, printer, as-
adding new assistant scoutmasters and spe- sistaqt printer, librarian, assistant librarian,
cial instructors to the troop staff, and as- orderly and assistant orderly. A schedule
signing to each some part of the troop work, of their work has been made up and the list
Our staff of assistant scoutmasters takes of their duties is used when checking up
care of instruction in camping, carpentry, their work by inspecting officers or at the
bicycle work and printing, as well as that troop council.
required for the various tests lor first and At the troop meetings the following out-
second class honors. line is used as a guide, but is changed from
Special instructors take direct charge of time to time as occasions demand,
instruction and examination in such sub-
jects as signaling, photography, cooking,
wood working, first aid, swimming, life sav-
ing, etc. Each instructor has but one sub-
ject and usually visits the troop on a
scheduled night each month.
The regular work of the troop is divided
into four departments:—(1) Administra-
tion, (2) Quartermaster's, (3) Training
and (4) Inspection. Each department is in
charge of an assistant scoutmaster who is
made responsible for the work, according
to the following outlines:
(D
Dept. of Administration.
Dues and fees, bills, audits;—■
Membership, Map district (place the home
each scout on same).
Recruits—applications, transfers, troop roster.
Public Functions (except demonstrations).
(2)
Dept. of Training.
I (A) For Patrol Leaders
Leadership
Library
Discipline
Troop Bulletin Board
Programs
Field Work
For Scouts
Health
Woodcraft (camps and hikes)
Arts, Trades, Crafts
Civics
Sports
Examinations
Records of Advancement
of
(B)
II
Program (outline) for a Meeting.
Roll call and salute to the flag.
Dues collected.
Inspection.
Awards of badges and honors.
Setting-up exercises or foot drill.
Topic of the evening—Special speakers.
School of Scoutcraft—.Department training.
Assembly—-Business Session—Senior patrol leader.
Order of Business
1. Reading of minutes of previous meeting.
2. Reading of communications.
3. Report of departments:
(a) administration.
(b) training.
(c) inspection.
4. Report of instructors (including those work-
ing in other troops).
5. Report of standing committees.
6. Report of special committees.
7. Election of new members.
8. Unfinished business.
9. New business.
10. Announcements:
(a) members.
(b) patrol leaders.
(c) assistant scoutmasters.
(d) scoutmaster.
11. Discussion of troop problems.
12. Adjournment of business session.
Games or social functions (game committee or
social secretary).
First call (get ready for home).
"Taps" (all leave for home).
This method—a definite job for each as-
sistant scoutmaster, and a staff of special
instructors taking care of the unusual topics
■—makes it possible for me as scoutmaster,
to co-ordinate the whole and make it pos-
111 SeXt?icf and councilhusesr)OOP itSe'f a"d ^ ?ib>e f°r_every one in the troop to get
(3)
Dept. of Inspection and Award.
Reports as to
Attendance,
Point Contest,
Advancement (training),
Membership,
Equipment,
Finance,
Patrol Work,
Socials.
Awards
Scout Badges of rank,
Badges of office,
Point Contest Honors,
Attendance Honors—month, year.
instruction, examination and the fellowship
and guidance of the troop officers.
Each month we hold a "troop council,"
composed of the scoutmaster, assistant
scoutmasters and the patrol leaders, to con-
fer and consider questions of importance,
also making recommendations to the troop,
which are usually ratified at the regular
meeting following. This troop council us-
ually meets at 6 P. M. at an informal supper
prepared by a committee of the patrol
leaders, so that if necessary anyone present
can finish his report and get away in time
to keep an evening engagement.
To hold the interest of the older boys we
are at work upon an associate membership
class. Already Tilden, Lanbendorfer,
Moore, Pearce, Benson, of our former
scouts are assisting as instructors, not only
in our own troop, but helping the general
Movement by teaching scouts in other
(4)
Quartermaster's Dept.
Equipment
Inventory,
Model Outfit,
Use and Care.
House
Troop and Special Headquarters.
The men on our troop committee super-
vise the work according to the same plans troops also.
as that given the assistant scoutmasters. From the scoutmaster's viewpoint, the
In this way a committeeman checks up the hardest task is to get each officer to give
work of the assistant scoutmaster acting as full attention to his own duties and keep
the executive officer of his own department, his hands off the responsibilities assigned
When there was a definite need, for an in- to someone else. Gradually they are learn-
structor in cooking, I _ made our wants ing to develop their own departments, and
known to our committeeman handling next season we hope to have our depart-
"Training," and within a short time he had mental system quite fully developed.
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