9. Understand the general working of steam and hydraulic winches, and have a knowledge of weather wisdom and of tides.
Signaling
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To obtain a merit badge for Signaling a scout must
1. Send and receive a message in two of the following systems of signaling: Semaphore, Morse, or Myer, not fewer than twenty-four letters per minute.
2. Be able to give and read signals by sound.
3. Make correct smoke and fire signals.
Stalking
To obtain a merit badge for Stalking a scout must 1. Take a series of twenty photographs of wild animals or birds from life, and develop and print them.
2. Make a group of sixty species of wild flowers, ferns, or grasses, dried and mounted in a book and correctly named.
3. Make colored drawings of twenty flowers, ferns, or grasses, or twelve sketches from life of animals or birds, original sketches as well as the finished pictures to be submitted.
Surveying
To obtain a merit badge for Surveying a scout must
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1. Map correctly from the country itself the main features of half a mile of road, with 440 yards each side to a scale of two feet to the mile, and afterward draw same map from memory.
2. Be able to measure the height of tree, telegraph pole, and church steeple, describing method adopted.
3. Measure width of a river.
4. Estimate distance apart of two objects a known distance away and unapproachable.
5. Be able to measure a gradient.
Swimming
To obtain a merit badge for Swimming a scout must
1. Be able to swim one hundred yards.
