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lusk: food economics 



To the man of large affairs the expenditure of twenty-five 

 dollars a month for food appears of little moment, and yet if 

 the 100,000,000 inhabitants of the United States lived as this 



TABLE III 

 Family, Two Adults, Three Children 



Wages. 

 Rent.. 



.$60 per month 

 .00 



$15. 



Food 25 . 00 



Coal 4.50 



Insurance 2 . 25 



Soap, matches, etc 1 .00 



Clothing and extras 12.25 



$60.00 



typical poor man's family lived the cost of food would aggregate 

 $6,000,000,000 per annum. To any man of large affairs the 

 maintenance at Boston of the Nutrition Laboratory of the 

 Carnegie Institution, with its budget of $60,000 per annum, 

 appeals impressively to the imagination; yet this work is ac- 

 complished at an annual expense of one-thousandth of one per 

 cent of what the American people would pay for food if each 

 family of five had an income of $720 per annum. Is it not a 

 little sad to think that the expenditure of thousands of millions 

 of dollars annually for food, an expenditure frequently amount- 

 ing to more than half of the income of the poor man, should 

 take place without any real idea as to the nature of what food is? 



TABLE IV 

 Supplies for a Boarding School Containing 355 Boys 



Food supply. 



Waste 



Food-fuel 



CARBO- 

 HYDRATE 

 METRIC 

 TONS 



60.5 

 4.2 



56.3 



Mr. F. C. Gephart, of the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology, 

 has made a study into the food consumption of the boys at St. 

 Paul's school at Concord, New Hampshire, one of the largest 



