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Excerpt from Agricultural Arithmetic
Arithmetic is best regarded as an instrument, a tool, with which to accomplish various desired ends and hence should be studied in adaptation to those ends. Facility in the use of arithmetic depends upon two things: first a knowledge of the business relations to which it is to be applied, and, second, a knowledge of the pure arithmetical processes together with skill in performing them. Hence this book has been organized into two parts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
