IV. Describe four different kinds of soil and tell what is best planted in each. Tell what sort of fertilizer should be used in each soil. Explain the value of stable manure. STANDARD REFERENCES: Farmers Bulletin, published by the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. Write for catalogue and select the titles bearing on your special interest. The bulletins are free. The Beginner's Garden Book by Allen French, Macmillan Co. Manual of Gardening, L. H. Bailey, Macmillan. Principles of Agriculture, L. H. Bailey, Macmillan. Essentials of Agriculture, H. J. Waters, Ginn. [Illustration: FIRST AIDE*** SYMBOL--RED CROSS IN BLACK CIRCLE] A Girl Scout should know: 1. What to do first in case of emergency. 2. Symptoms and treatment of shock. 3. How and when to apply stimulants. 4. How to put on a sling. 5. How to bandage the head, arm, hand, finger, leg ankle, eye, jaw. 6. What to do for: a. bruises, strains, sprains, dislocations, fractures; b. wounds; c. burns, frost bite, freezing, sunstroke, heat exhaustion; d. drowning, electric shock, gas accidents; e. apoplexy, convulsions; f. snake bite; g. common emergencies such as: 1. cinders in the eye; 2. splinter under the nail; 3. wound from rusty nail; 4. oak and ivy poisoning; 5. insect in the ear. A Girl Scout should demonstrate: 7. Applying a sterile dressing. 8. Stopping bleeding. 9. Putting on a splint. 10. Making a stretcher from uniform blanket or Scout neckerchief and poles. 11. The Schaefer method of artificial respiration. REFERENCES: Section on First Aid in this Handbook. American Red Cross Abridged Text Books on First Aid, Blakiston. [Illustration: FLOWER FINDER SYMBOL--FLOWER] 1. To pass this test a Scout must be able to tell the difference between plants and animals and the difference between the two general types of plants. 2. A Scout must also pass either the test for Flowers and Ferns or Trees given below. A. FLOWERS AND FERNS 1. Make a collection of fifty kinds of wild flowers and ferns and correctly name them or make twenty-five photographs or colored drawings of wild flowers and ferns. 2. Why were the following ferns so named: Christmas Fern, Sensitive Fern, Walkingleaf Fern, Cinnamon Fern, Flowering Fern? 3. Name and describe twenty cultivated plants in your locality. 4. Be able to recognize ten weeds. 5. How can you distinguish Poison Ivy from Virginia Creeper? What part of Pokeweed is poisonous? What part of Jimsonweed is poisonous? Be able to recognize at least one poisonous mushroom. B. TREES