The enterprise. [volume] (Harlem, Mont.) 1899-1926, 1908-12-30
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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
memorize it; and whether they coulG
solve it if apples were substituted fol
potatoes. EX-Gov. Hoard told us a
funny story last year about one of his
own grandchildren who had failed on
a simple question in mental aritf-
metic, says Editor Wallace, in Wal
laces' Farmer Upon his expressing
great surprise the youngster replied:
III you had given me that in potatoes
instead of in apples l could have
done it!''
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 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 dc
sums outside of the book"
AS an example of the questions
which any teacher may frame, and the
solution of which would compel pupils
to think along farm lines, we quote the
following from an instruction bulletin
given out by the Pennsylvania Agri.
cultural college:
Il. If six pecks of wheat are sown
on one acre, how much seed wheat
Will be required for a field 40 rods
long and 25 rods wide?
Y. If 16 four-inch tile are required
for rod, how many tile will be need
ed for ditch mile and quarter
long?
3. The wagon and wheat weigh |
$3.50 pounds. The wagon alone
weighs 1900 pounds. What is the |
wheat worth at S8 cents per bushel?
4. A row of corn shocks takes up
space twice the width of the space
between two rows of corn. The length
d the space is 40 rods. How much
ground is occupied by the shock row?
3. There are 210 rows of corn on
ne long side of a field and 1870 on
he short side. What will the cutting
cost at five cents for each shock ten
ILLS square?
.. AT SIS per ton for commercial
ertllizer, what will it cost to fertilize
field 40 by 60 rods if $50 pounds
re used on each acre?
Z. One-half ton of lime per acre
vas soWed on field 35 rods long and
a rods wide. How many tons of lima
we're used?
49, 1t costs ~ cents per bushel for
hreshing oats and 2A cents for
'heat. What will the threshing of
$50 bushels of oats and ESQ bushels
f wheat cost?
y. A field is a half mile long and
quarter OF mile wide; if "a acres
re ploWed each day, how many days
'lll be required to pillow it?
Io. A man hauls at one trip 1880
ounds OF milk to a cremery. What
oes he receive at Is cents per hun
red?"
Questions in connection with farm ,
uslness come up day by day. What ,
lore profitable amusement could :
aere be in the evening than for the :
ather to have the boys and girls fig :,
re them out for him? His expert. .
nee will be different from ours if the
'rmer does not say: Tut, tut! Is ,
lat all you can do in the way of fig .
res? WHAT'S the use in sending you
school If you cannot do better
ian that?"