al officers in her town or city and how elected and
the term of office.

9. Know the various city departments, and their duties, such as fire,
police, board of health, charities and education.

10. Be able to name and give location of public buildings and points of
interest in her city or town.

11. Tell the history and object of the Declaration of Independence.

12. Cook. (Gridiron.)

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1. Must know how to wash up, wait on table, light a fire, lay a table
for four, and hand dishes correctly at table.

2. Clean and dress fowl.

3. Clean a fish.

4. How to make a cook place in the open.

5. Make tea, coffee or cocoa, mix dough and make bread in oven and state
approximately cost of each dish.

6. Know how to make up a dish out of what was left over from the meals
of the day before.

7. Know the order in which a full course dinner is served.

8. Know how to cook two kinds of meat.

9. Boil or bake two kinds of vegetables successfully.

10. How to make two salads.

11. How to make a preserve of berries or fruit, or how to can them.

12. Estimate cost of food per day for one week.

13. Invalid Cooking. (A palm leaf.)

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1. How to make gruel, barley water, milk toast, oyster or clam soup,
beef tea, chicken jelly.

14. Cyclist. (A Wheel.)

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1. Own a bicycle.

2. Be able to mend a tire.

3. Pledge herself to give the services of her bicycle to the government
in case of need.

4. If she ceases to own a bicycle, she must return the badge.

5. Read a map properly.

6. Know how to make reports if sent out scouting on a road.

15. Dairy. (Sickle.)

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1. Know how to test cow's milk with Babcock Test (p. 119).

2. To make butter.

3. How to milk.

4. Know how to do general dairy work, such as cleaning pans, etc.,
sterilizing utensils.

5. Know how to feed, kill, and dress poultry.

6. Test five cows for ten days each with Babcock Test and make proper
reports.

16. Electricity. (Lightning.)

To obtain a merit badge for Electricity, a Scout must:

1. Illustrate the experiment by which the laws of electrical attraction
and repulsion are shown.

2. Understand the difference between a direct and an alternating
current, and show uses to which each is adapted. Give a method of
determining which kind flows in a given circuit.

3. Make a simple electro-magnet.

4. Have an elementary knowledge of the construction of sim