1. A.M. means before noon; M. means noon, and P.M. means after noon.

2. Look at the picture of the clock and tell me what time it is.

3. What is the name of the hand that points to XII?

4. What is the name of the one that points to IX? 5. How long does it take the minute hand to make one revolution? How many minutes does it take?

6. How long does it take the hour hand to make one revolution? How many hours does it take?

7. What part of a revolution does the hour hand make while the minute hand makes one.revolution?

ORAL WORK

1. How many revolutions does the minute hand make while the hour hand makes one?

2. How many revolutions does the hour hand make in a day? How many does the minute hand make?

3. To what number on the dial will the minute hand point at half-past 9 o'clock? at quarter-past 10 o clock? at twenty-five minutes past 11 o'clock ?

4. How many hours are there between 10 A.M. and 3 P.M.?

5. How many hours are there between 7 A.M. and 6 P.M.?

6. How many hours and minutes are there between 9.15 A.M. and 11 A.M.? between 8.30 A.M. and 4.10 P.M.?

7. If a boy goes to bed at half-past 8 P.M. and gets up at 7 A.M., how many hours and minutes is he in bed?

8. How many hours and minutes are there between 4.30 A.M. and 12 M.? between 10.05 A.M. and 12 midnight?

9. Name the months that have 30 days; 31 days. 10. How many days has February?

11. Name the spring months; the summer months;

WRITTEN WORK

1. A barrel holds 31 gal. A hogshead holds 2 barrels, or 63 gal.

2. How many gallons are there in 4 barrels ? in 2 hogsheads?

3. How many quarts are there in a barrel? in a hogshead?

4. A milk dealer sells 15 cans of milk each day. If 10 of the cans hold 10 gallons each, and 5 hold 8 gallons each, how many gallons does he sell? how many quarts?

5. A man bought two five-gallon cans of maple sirup at 80 a gallon, and sold it at 22¢ a quart. How much did he gain?

6. From a barrel of vinegar there were drawn out at one time 5 gal., at another time 4 gal. 2 qt., at another time 30 qt. How many gallons were drawn out, and how many gallons remained?

7. How many gallons are there in 192 pt.? in 928 pt.?

8. If 1 quart of coal oil is worth $.05, how much is a barrel containing 42 gal. worth?

9. How many quart bottles will a barrel of cider (31 gal.) fill?

10. How much will 28 gallons of cream cost at 5¢

1. How many pints are there in 10 qt.? in 25 qt.? 2. How many quarts are there in 64 pt.?

3. How many quarts are there in 9 pk.? in 20 pk.? in 50 pk.?

4. How many bushels are there in 36 pk.? in 48 pk.? in 360 pk.?

5. How many pecks are there in 4 bu.? in 93 bu.? in 11 bu. 3 pk.?

6. Find the cost of 5 bu. 3 pk. of apples at 60% a bushel.

7. What part of a bushel is 2 pk.? 3 pk.? How many quarts are there in 2 pk.? in of a bushel? 8. Find the cost of 1 bu. 3 pk. of beans at 40 a

1. How many tons are there in 4000 lb. ? 2. A load of hay weighed 2500 lb. tons did it weigh?

How many

3. Find the cost of 14 tons of hay at $16 a ton. 4. Find the cost of 3000 lb. of hay at $12 a ton. 5. How many tons are there in 60 cwt.?

6. Find the cost of 3 tons of coal at 20 per hundredweight.

7. If I put 1 ton of baking powder in half-pound packages, how many packages will it make?

8. How many cwt. are there in 3600 lb.?

9. How much must I pay for 500 lb. of hay at $12.40 a ton?

10. Find the cost of 5 T. 4 cwt. of straw at $5 a T. 11. A merchant bought a lot of butter that weighed 14 lb. 7 oz., and another lot that weighed 7 lb. 9 oz.