The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-02-14
FORESTRY CONTEST
Plan IS LAUNCHED
FOR BOYS OF State
American Association Will Or.
crate Through Head Of
Bottineau School
PLANTING TO BE INCLUDED
Medals Will Be Awarded for
Proficiency in knowledge
Regarding Trees
PLANTING TO BE INCLUDED

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BOttincau. N. o. Feb. 14.-(P)-
As g part of a national campaign di-
rccted by the American Forestry as
ISOLATION to encourage the interest OF
children in forestry and enable them
to reach a fuller understanding of
what growing forests mean to public
welfare, a series of North Dakota
forestry contests, in which only Boy
Scouts of the state may compete. will
be sponsored under the supervision
of F. E. Cobb. president of the state
school of forestry.
As an incentive, tho American For
estry association. will award annually
as trophies, handsome bronze medals
to winners of forestry contests in
every state Of the union. including
Alaska. Each contest. however. is 10
be confined to an individual state,
there being no relation between the
contest in one state and the contests
in tho others. AS each state contest
must be confined to one common
group of children. Cobb has desig-
tANkVSA ~ Ivy 9NoANo S~ PAA
i'll the North Dakota contest.
Sherman Tree Medal Is Award
Two awards will be made yearly,
ono to an individual scout and one to
the troop whose member wins the in
d!vidual award. The troop award will
pass from troop to troop as won dur
ing consecutive years until the award
is won by the same troop three diff
fercnt times. It then will become the
winning troops permanent trophy.
The troop award is a bronze medal
BE inches In diameter and is mount
ed on a walnut stand bearing q plate
OH which the name Of the winners
will be inscribed. The medal carries
a reproduction OF the oldest and
largest of all living things. the Gen.
eral Sherman tree. with a background
of companion seGuoias. in bas-relief.
The smaller medal becomes the per-
manent trophy Of the scout winning
it each year.
The participating scout will COM
pete not only with other scouts in the
state, but with members Of his own
troop. Scouts not beginning the first
year, 1880. MAJ not begin the 1880
work in 1881 or 1882. as it makes un-
equal competition during that year.
Notification Of participation must be
forwarded by ~scoutmasters to Cobb
not later than March 10. 1880. All
reports and material must be sent to
Cobb by November /. 1880, the clos
ing day of the 1880 contest.
Like Merit Badge
The requirements have been made
to conform as near as possible to
those necessary for the scout to win
his merit badge in forestry. They do
no. cover the entire requirements but
are expected to stimulate his desire
to finish for his merit badge. The
scoutmaster will be furnished with a
set Of the rules and must advise Cobb
OF the number Of scouts who will
enter the contest.
Upon receipt of the IN of the
contestants, a set Of bulletins and
pamphlets will be forwarded to the
sccutmaster for distribution. Record
sheets will be furnished the scout
master for recording progress.
Nature Of Contest
Specific requiem ,nt5 for the con-
test as outlined by Cobb, follow:
First year:
!. Identity and be able to describe
from observation three fourthS Of the
number of trees and shrubs within
q five -mile radius Of the scouts home.
In no case. however. more than Is
kinds of trees or shrubs.
2. Collect 20 seeds each of Is dill
ferent trees or shrubs and identify
same. If there are less than 20 diff
ferent trees OF shrubs within a five
mile radius Of the scouts home, col
lect and identify three-fourths of
such kinds.
3. Collect. at the proper time for
planting in the spring of 1881, one
pound each of seed of boxelder. green
ash and one-half pound clean seed
(shelled) caragana (Siberian pea
tree). Make SO nine-inch cuttings Of
cottonwood (poplarD or willow, ac-
cording to directions furnished.
Stratify tree seeds for planting ac-
cording to directions given. Prepare
and heel in the cuttings made 'ac-
cording to directions.
Planting Taken Up
Second Year:
/. Prepare ground for planting
the seed collected the previous fall.
Give these seedlings the necessary
cultivation required. substituting hand
wedding and hocirg for field cult
walton.
2. Collect and identify 10 different
kinds of wood and be able to tell
come use Of each that has been OBJ
served.
3. During early october dig and
heel in the year seedlings and
cuttings, that were grown during the
summer.
Third year:
During the winter make a collection
Of IS twigs and identify and label
them. In the spring plant. in a per-
manent site, the one-year seedlings
grown the previous summer. Keep
there trees weeded and cultivated.
These may be planted as q windbreak.
Make . herberium from IS trees and
shrubs with leaves. flowers, II possible,
seeds or fruits and properly label
same according to directions given.
1ESTFUL EASE AFTER COUGH
ING