CONTENTS 



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FUNDAMENTAL PROCESSES ............... 1 



Rapid Addition .................. 1 



Subtraction .................... 5 



Multiplication ............. ...... 8 



Division ..................... 11 



DECIMALS ...................... 13 



EDUCATION AND THRIFT ......... . ..... 18 



Educated Labor .................. 18 



Training for Head and Hand ............. 19 



Idleness, Carelessness, and Waste of Machinery ..... 21 



Produce, Grain, and Stock Market ........... 23 



Poultry Problems .................. 25 



Spraying ........... .......... 27 



The Value of Birds to Farmers ............ 29 



PRACTICAL MEASUREMENTS .............. 30 



Judging Distance and Surface ............ 30 



Lumber Measure .................. 31 



Measuring Lumber in the Log ............ 33 



Cordwood, Stove Wood, and Coal ........... 34 



Liquid Measure .................. 36 



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Land Measure ................... 39 



Areas of States ................... 42 



Papering ..................... 43 



Carpeting ..................... 44 



CONSERVATION OF THE SOIL .............. 45 



Soil Erosion .................... 45 



Tax upon the Soil by Different Crops .......... 46 



The Cost of Restoring Plant Food to the Soil ...... 47 



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