Collecting Badges

Farmer

Farmer

Farmer Senior Scouts Badge 1958 to 1964

The Farmer Badge was part of the Collective series “Countryman”

To earn this badge a scout must do the following *

(1) Demonstrate practical work of one of the following: Horseman, Shepherd, Cowman or Pigman. 

(2) Show a general knowledge of haymaking sowing, harvesting, and an acquaintance with routine seasonal work on a farm, including the care of cattle, horses, sheep and pigs.

(3) Recognise common crops and show some knowledge of rotation. 

(4) Keep satisfactorily one of the following over a period of a year :

(a) Bees, rabbits, chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons goats. (Produce proper accounts showing business methods.)  Or

(b) Know the ways in which soil is kept fertile; have a  general knowledge of the rotation of crops, the chief  pests and diseases; and know the locally important  breeds of sheep and cattle.      

(5)

(a) Have spent at least a week on a farm and have worked for at least six hours a day for five clays in that week.  Or

(b) Make a general agricultural survey of a village (under 1,000 inhabitants), giving details of local crafts, crops, markets and transport.     

*The Requirements for each badge varied through issues of POR