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FARM ARITHMETIC. 



was $5,487,000,000. What was the value per farm ? The 

 cotton was what per cent of this total value ? 



314. What was the production of cottonseed in 1909, 

 estimating 1,000 pounds of seed to each bale of cotton ? 



315. The cottonseed in 1909 was valued at $121,000,- 

 000. What was this per ton? Per pound? Per acre? 

 Total, lint and seed, per acre ? 



Statistics of Cereal Crops. 



Every ten years the census bureau reports on acreage, 

 production, values, and other general facts incidental to 

 farm crops. The following examples may be solved by 

 use of the accompanying table taken from the 1910 cen- 

 sus report and showing statistics of the 1909 crops. The 

 corresponding table for 1899 is also given. 



SOME CEREAL CROPS GROWN IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1909. 



Note. All figures beyond the first three are of little im- 

 portance and may be omitted in calculation. 98,382,665 may be 

 taken as 98,400,000, and 2,552,189,630 as 2,550,000,000. 



SOME CEREAL CROPS GROWN IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1899. 



