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feet high. The apples filled a bin 10 feet wide, 12 

 feet long and 7 feet deep. Figuring the crops at the 

 present local prices and allowing a fair rent for the 

 pasture land, what was the income from the farm for 

 the season ? 



14. If corn is checked 3 feet 8 inches apart each 

 way, how many rows to the acre? 



15. With 3 stalks to the hill, how many stalks to 

 the acre ? 



16. If it takes 100 ears to make a bushel, how 

 many bushels to the acre would you have, with one 

 good ear from each stalk? 



17. Which is the best crop, 5 stalks to the hill 

 with small ears requiring 200 to make a bushel, or 3 

 stalks to the hill bearing good ears requiring 100 to 

 make a bushel? 



18. If a field of corn is good enough to make 70 

 bushels per acre, but the squirrels take out 100 hills 

 to the acre, in a 10-acre piece, how many bushels will 

 be lost from the crop? 



Cost of Growing Farm Crops 



In estimating the cost of growing crops in the 

 following problems, count the time of a man and a 

 team at $3 per day, or man alone at $1.50 per day. 



1. A field is 80 rods long and 60 rods wide. How 

 many acres ? 



2. How many days will it take to plow it, allow- 



