5. He raised cauliflower for the first crop, receiving $131.70 for that, and squashes for the second crop, which he sold for $85.75. His expenses were $25.87. What was his net profit from the plot of ground? At that rate what would have been his profit from an acre?

6. James raised onions on a plot of 20 square rods. He sold them for $34.10, and his expenses were $6.75. Find his profit.

7. What was James' profit per square rod? At that rate what would he have made from an acre of onions?

8. Lena cleared $58.05 from her garden project. She loaned this money to her father at 3 per cent interest. What will be her interest on it at the end of one year?

9. John made $14.76 from onions on a plot 16 feet by 66 feet. What was his profit per square rod? What would have been his profit on an acre at that rate?

10. Richard sold 19 sacks of carrots at $5.00 per ton and received $5.30 for them. How many tons did he sell?

11. Theodore had a garden plot that measured 33 feet by 132 feet. He raised beans on it and sold them in the fall for $110.75. What was his profit per square rod?

12. What would have been his profit on an acre at the same rate?

13. In 1916 James' profit from his -acre corn project was $27.00. This was more than his profit on the same field in 1915. What was his profit in 1915?

14. Harry's field is 10 rods by 16 rods. Find the cost of a three-wire fence around this field if an 80-rod spool costs $3.00.

These lists of problems give an excellent general review in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, common and decimal fractions, measurements and percentage. They are practical because they are based upon the real data submitted by the pupils.

Exercise 9. Poultry Projects

1. Ida made a profit of $7.87 on a flock of 15 hens. She placed this money in a savings bank at 3 per cent interest. How much would she have to her credit at the end of 6 months?

Remember that in a savings bank the cents are disregarded in computing the interest, only the whole dollars being used. The interest on Ida's account, then, will be computed on $7 for the 6 months, and this interest added to the original deposit, $7.87.

2. Victoria sold $7.15 worth of poultry. Her expenses were $2.00. What was her profit? The expenses were what part of the sales? The expenses were what part of the profit?

3. Hazel had 3 dozen hens. The average yield per hen for the year was 130 eggs. How many eggs did Hazel get during the year? What were these eggs worth at 25 cents a dozen? What were the eggs of one hen worth at that price?

4. Albert received $110.80 from his poultry project. Feed and other expenses amounted to $27.24. Find his net profit. 5. Albert set 260 eggs and got 225 chicks. What per cent of his eggs hatched?

6. He sold 134 of these chicks for $58.77. Find the average price per chick.

7. In April Albert's hens produced 699 eggs; May, 544 eggs; June, 522 eggs; July, 429 eggs; August, 280 eggs, and September, 112 eggs. Find the total number of eggs produced during those six months. How many dozen is that? He received an average of 25 cents a dozen. How much did he receive from the sale of eggs?

8. William started his poultry project with 9 fowls worth $12.00 His egg receipts for the year were $18.00. His receipts from chicken sales were $8.00 and his expenses $7.75. William's profit was what per cent of his cash outlay?1

1Count both the investment in fowls and expenses in the cash outlay

Exercise 10. Sewing Projects

1. Each of the 8 girls in a sewing class made a middy blouse. A ten-yard bolt of material, costing 31 cents a yard, made 4 blouses, and a 5-cent spool of thread was enough to stitch two blouses. What was the total cost of the 8 blouses?

2. What was the cost of each blouse? What was the saving to each member of the class when garments of this quality sold in the store for $2?

3. Genevieve bought during the year 6 pairs of stockings at 3 pairs for $1 and 10 cents worth of darning cotton for mending them. Margaret considered mending a waste of time, so each week she purchased a 10-cent pair of stockings. How much did each girl spend for stockings during the year?

4. Mary's skirt pattern called for 3 yards of material with nap. She found that by using goods without nap she could save of this amount. How many yards did she need of material without nap? If each kind cost $2 a yard, how much did she save by using the material without nap?

5. The material for a crocheted yoke cost Emma 60 cents. She sold the yoke for 24 times the cost of the materials. What did she gain?

6. Lucy priced a silk shirt and found that it would cost her $18. She bought 23 yards of silk, equal in quality to that of the store garment, for which she paid $3 a yard. She also used of a yard of belting at 30 cents a yard; 1 card of hook and eyes at 5 cents, and 1 spool of silk thread at 10 cents. How much did her skirt cost?

7. How much did Lucy save by making the garment herself? If it took her 10 hours to make the skirt, how much did she make per hour?

The girls of the class should be required to supplement this list with problems from their own experience.