370. From a rye-field containing 34 A. a farmer obtained 52 bu. of rye, and 2 t. 9 cwt. of straw. He sold the rye at $1.05 per bushel, and the straw at $13 per ton. How much money per acre did the field yield him?

371. A man walks 18 mi. 2 fur. 26 rds. 3 yds. in 5 hrs. In what time will he walk 14 mi.?

372. A farmer exchanged corn, at $0.85 per bushel, and rye, at $1.40 per bushel, for 12 t. of hay, at $18.50 per ton delivered. If he gives 150 bu. of corn, how many bushels of rye are required to square the account?

373. A farmer exchanged 6 cds. of wood, at $7.25 per cord, for 3 bbls. of flour, at $5.75 per barrel, and the rest of the pay in sugar, at 62 cents per pound. How many pounds of sugar should he receive?

374. What is the freight bill for carrying 87,550 lbs. of beef from St. Louis to New York, at $0.56 per hundredweight?

375. In Trenton, N. J., there are 23 pottery establishments with an aggregate of 110 kilns, and an annual production of $4,000,000 worth of goods. What is the average value produced by each pottery? by each kiln?

376. At a printing house, male compositors get 35 cents per 1000 ems, and female compositors, 25 cents. If a male compositor can set 6000 ems in a day, how many ems must a female compositor set in order to earn the same amount of money?

377. What is the value of a chest of tea containing. 79 lbs. 10 oz., at 62 cents per pound?

378. Add together 6 sq. yds. 7 sq. ft. 56 sq. in., 17 sq. yds. 4 sq. ft. 918 sq. in., 5 sq. yds. 3 sq. ft. 100 sq. in., and subtract 20 sq. yds. 7 sq. ft. 1403 sq. in. from the sum.

379. Reduce 7 hrs. 15 min. to the decimal of a day?

When it is 7 A.M. sun time at Paris (2° 20′ E.), what is the time:

380: At Petersburg (30° 19′ E.)?

381. At Calcutta (88° 26' E.)?

382. At New York (74° W.)?

383. At San Francisco (122° 14′ W.)?

384. How many yards of flannel, at 54 cents per yard, are equal in value to 12 pairs of blankets, $7.56 per pair? 385. Reduce 56 days to the decimal of a year.

386. Two railway trains start at 7 A.M. at opposite ends of a line 640 mi. long. Their average rate is 32 mi. an hour. At what hour will they meet?

387. For transporting a pile of coal from one place to another, 18 laborers were employed with wheelbarrows holding on the average 220 lbs. of coal. After they had made 10 trips, the pile was reduced one-half in size. What was the weight of the pile?

388. How many days and hours are there from March 8, 10 A.M., to Nov. 13, 11 P.M.?

389. How many days and hours are there from 2 A.M., Feb. 3, 1887, to 6 P.M., Dec. 23, 1889 ?

390. A bicyclist travels 50 miles in 3 hrs. 6 min. 40 sec. What was his rate in feet per second?

391. I own 4 out of 75 shares in a business. What will be my share of a profit of $19,837.56?

392. How many times does a wheel whose circumference is 18 ft. turn in going 24 mi.?

393. Extract from a farmer's note-book, January, 1885:

Hence, find the total consumption of each article of food for the month.

394. If a postman walk 34 mi. every morning, and 27 mi. every evening, how far will he walk between Jan. 1, 1888, and the end of the following June, supposing no delivery of letters on Sundays?

395. A bequest of $251.28 is left to 7 men and 10 women, so that each man is to have twice the share of each How must it be divided?

woman.

396. A farmer hires two farms, of 53 A. and 27 A. respectively. He pays $8.40 an acre for the one, and $6.80 an acre for the other. After paying $499.20 in money, how much wheat at $1.35 per bushel must he give to make up the remainder of his rent?

397. The leading-wheels of a locomotive are 5 yds. 2 ft. 2 in. in circumference; the driving-wheels, 8 yds. 1 ft. 9 in. How often will the former turn while the latter turn 618 ✓ times? and what distance will have been run?

398. Find the G.C.M. of 116,039, 122,067, and 137,137. 399. A cargo steamer leaves port at the rate of 8.mi. per hour at 3 A.M. on Monday. At midnight, Monday night, a despatch boat starts in pursuit at the rate of 15 mi. an hour. When will they be in sight of one another, supposing them to be visible 6 mi. off?

400. I am asked to supply a ton of fusible metal consisting of 8 parts by weight of bismuth, 5 lead, and 3 tin. The only bismuth I happen to have in stock is in an alloy consisting of 9 parts of bismuth, 4 lead, and 3 tin. How much of my alloy must I take, and how much lead and tin must I add to make up the order?

401. Two wheels in gear have, respectively, 10 teeth and 64 teeth. How many times will the smaller revolve while the larger revolves 575 times?

402. A, B, C are three places on a river, A and C being equally distant from B. A boat can go from A to B and back in 5 hrs., and from A to C in 7 hrs. How long would it take to go from C to A?

403. The new English ordinance maps are made on the scale of 25 in. to the mile. The map of a certain parish is sq. ft. in area. Find the number of acres in the parish.

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404. At a collection after a sermon the boxes were found to contain 4 five-dollar bills, 9 one-dollar bills, 22 halfdollars, 34 quarters, 73 dimes, 96 half-dimes, and 118 nickels. What was the sum collected?

405. A fire is maintained in a stove 14 hrs. daily, from Nov. 1 to May 1. The price of coal is $7.50 per ton, and the stove consumes on the average 21 lbs. of coal per hour. Find the total cost of maintaining the fire.

406. Reduce 10 min. to the decimal of a day.

407. Mr. B engages a seamstress to make him one dozen of shirts. She pays 12 cents per yard for the cloth, and 60 cents apiece for the bosoms, and charges him 15 cents apiece for thread and buttons, and 50 cents apiece for the making. What is the amount of her bill, allowing 34 yds. of cloth to each shirt?

408. If a man saves $77.40 out of a yearly income of $1260, how much does he spend per day?

409. A dealer in notions paid $7.20 for 12 bunches of feathers, each bunch containing 12 doz. of feathers. How many feathers should he sell for 5 cents in order that his profit may amount to $3.60?

410. Mr. Glaisher, when in a balloon 4 mi. from the earth, heard a railway train directly below him. many seconds was the sound in reaching him if it travelled at the rate of 1100 ft. per second?

411. How many days are there from Dec. 17, 1887, to Oct. 3, 1888, both dates included? Express the result as the fraction of a year.

412. Divide the product of 17.161 and 0.098 by the product of 1.31 and 64.33.

413. Find to the nearest second the time occupied by light in passing to the planet Neptune from the sun, the velocity of light being 186,000 mi. per second, and the distance 2746 millions of miles.

414. How many times must I walk round a garden 80 ft. long and 36 ft. wide in order to walk 3 mi.?

415. Sound travels 1120 ft. per second. What is the distance of a thunder-cloud when the thunder is heard 17 sec. after the lightning is seen?

416. Europe contains 3,375,860 sq. mi., and Australia. contains 4,255,000. How much larger is Australia than Europe? Find the population of each, if Europe has 90 inhabitants to the square mile, and Australia 3 inhabitants every 4 sq. mi.

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417. A man sold of his farm, and then of the remainder; he then had 44 A. left. How many acres were there in his farm?