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PREFACE. 



This book is primarily, as its title implies, a farm 

 arithmetic. It is not intended to be a medium for the 

 setting forth of the general principles of arithmetic. It 

 is hoped that it may serve two other very important ends 

 in elementary and higher schools. First, it will supply 

 new, concrete, useful, and interesting problems for prac- 

 tice, drill, and review. Second, it will tend to develop 

 in the mind of the pupil an appreciation of and an insight 

 into the quantitative side of farm life. A boy or girl 

 who has once become interested in solving the problems 

 of the farm will not easily be drawn away from the farm. 



This book may be used at any time after the funda- 

 mental principles of arithmetic have been covered, i. e., 

 during the last two or three years of the elementary 

 school, and should ordinarily be completed before the high 

 school is reached. It may be used alone or in conjunc- 

 tion with any standard grammar school, advanced, or high 

 school arithmetic. 



It is also hoped that this volume may be helpful to a 

 large number of farmers and country folk generally who 

 are interested in the many numerical and quantitative 

 problems that have so much to do with success on the 

 farm. 



Charles W. Burkett, 

 Karl D. Swartzel. 

 May. 1913. 



