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also agree to give an additional 25 cents per ton for 

 each additional 1 per cent of sugar or fraction thereof 

 over 14 per cent, if the fraction exceeds one-half per 

 cent. "What is the price of beets testing 13.7 per cent? 

 14 per cent? 14.3 per cent? 14.7 per cent? 15 per 

 cent ? 15.2 per cent ? 15.6 per cent ? 15.8 per cent ? 



2. Mr. Smith's beets yield fourteen tons per acre 

 and test 15 per cent. How much does he get per acre 

 for his crop ? 



3. On two acres of ground Mr. Jones raises 73,680 

 pounds of beets which test 14.8 per cent. How much 

 do his beets bring him in money per acre? 



4. If Mr. Jones spends $56 worth of labor on his 

 crop of beets, what is his net profit per acre? 



5. How many onion plants will be required to set 

 an acre in rows two feet apart, plants four inches 

 apart in the row? 



6. If a boy can set nine plants per minute, how long 

 will it take him to set them? 



7. If these onions average four ounces each, how 

 many bushels are raised on an acre? If they average 

 six ounces? Twelve ounces? One pound? 



8. What is the value of the crop in each case, at 

 60 cents per bushel? 



9. If it requires fifty days of a boy's time, worth 

 75 cents per day, to raise an acre of onions, what will 

 be his profit on an acre of four-ounce onions? 



