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this year of war, plying newspapers with articles, editorials and 

 cartoons ; giving public lectures ; enlisting 300 new members since 

 February 1 ; having interested 22 Boards of Trade of Ontario to 

 petition the Minister of Lands and Forests for a reform of the fire 

 ranging; circulating 15,000 copies of Boy Scouts Forest Book, and 

 as many "A Matter of Opinion" booklets, and 6,000 School Stories, 

 to settlers, railroaders, campers, teachers, some 2,000 of the latter 

 co-operating; and distributing 4500 copies of the monthly journal. 



To meet Canadian conditions, the Dominion Council of the 

 Boy Scouts' Association has authorized a Forestry badge, in lieu 

 of the Woodman badge. The conditions under which this badge 

 may be secured by the boys are very comprehensive and will do 

 much to interest Canadian boys in the Canadian forests and the 

 wild life found therein. The conditions for passing the test are: 



The scout must — 



1. Identify the principal native tree species in own locality, and 

 explain their principal distinguishing characteristics. 



2. Identify five kinds of shrubs. 



3. Describe the principal uses of ten species of Canadian woods. 

 Visit a wood-using factory, if practicable. 



4. Explain the aim of forestry, and compare with agriculture 

 and imregulated lumbering. 



5. Tell what are the effects of fires on soil, young forest growth 

 and mature timber; principal causes of forest fires and how best 

 to overcome them; three general classes of forest fires, and how to 

 fight each. 



6. Describe how the forest lands are protected and administered 

 in own province. 



7. Describe the general features of a limibering or pulpwood 

 operation; how the cutting is done in the woods; method of trans- 

 portation to the mill, and of manufacture there. Visit some por- 

 tion of woods operation, or sawmill, or pulp or paper mill, if 

 practicable. 



8. (Optional.) Discuss one or more of the enemies of trees, 

 such as insects (leaf -eaters, bark-borers, wood-borers), or decay 

 (fungus diseases), and tell something of how damage from these 

 sources may be lessened or overcome. 



The Forest Service has compiled a list of the institutions at 

 which instruction in forestry may be obtained in the United States. 



