The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1908-12-24
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FARM QUESTIONS.
A Suggestion for study Of Arithmetic
for Farmers Children.

We wonder how many of the pupils
In our public schools when given
question in mental arithmetic merely
it; and whether they could
solve 1t IL apples were substituted for
potatoes. IGx.Gov. Hoard told us
funny story last year about one of his
own grandchildren who had failed on
a simple question in mental arith-
metic, says Editor Wallace, in Wal
laces Farmer. Upon his expressing
great surprise the youngster replied:
If you had given me that in potatoes
instead of in apples l could have
done til"
We wonder how many teachers in
rural schools frame questions OF their
own on farm lines, so as to compel
the pupil to work them out by the
rules that should be applied to those
in the book. We have a very vivid
recollection of being caught up that
way ourselves one time to our very
great humiliation, and the only excuse
we had to offer was. "That question
was not in the book" The answer
that made our ears burn was: What
is the use of studying sums in the
book If they don't teach you to do
sums outside of the book?"
AS an example of the questions
solution of which would compel pupils
to think along farm lines, we quote the
following from an instruction bulletin
biven out by the Pennsylvania Agri
cultural college:
Il. If six pecks of wheat are sown
viii be required for a field 40 rods
long and 25 rods wide?
3. If 16 four-inch tile are required
for rod, how many tile will be need
ed for a ditch a mile and a quarter
,oug?
- The wagon and wheat weigh
5,l30 pounds. The wagon alone
weighs 1900 pounds. What is the
wheat worth at SO cents per bushel?
a. A row of corn shocks takes NJ
a space twice the width of the space
between two rows of corn. The length
OF the space is 40 rods. How mucl
ground is occupied by the shock row
20. There are 210 rows of corn oil
The long side of field and 100 oil
the short side. What will the cuttinl
cost at five cents for each shock tel
hills square?
IS. AT $2S per ton for commercial
fertilizer, what will 1t cost to fertiliz,
field 40 by so rods IL $50 pounds
are used on each acre?
-. One-half ton of lime per acr,
was sowed on field 35 rods long anC
"a rods wide. How many tons of lin,
We're used?
IS. II costs 11s cents per bushel TO
threshing oats and "a cents TO
wheat. What will the threshing o
1850 bushels of oats and ESQ bushels
of wheat cost?
80. A field is a half mile long an,
quarter of mile wide; II 2A acre
are plowed each day, how many day
will be required to plow It?
10 A man hauls at one trip 1893
pounds OF milk to a cremery. Wha
does he receive at Is cents per hun
dred?" o
Questions in connection with farm
business come up day by day. Wha
more profitable amusement coul,
there be In the evening than for tn
father to have the boys and girls fig
ure them out for him? His exper
ence will be different from ours II tn
farmer does not say: "Tut, tut! |
that all you can do In the way of fig
ures? What's the use in sending yo
to school If you cannot do bette
than that?"