TABLE 7 



Values at Farm and Retail, Marketing Margin, Fifty-eight Foods, 

 Hourly Earnings and Freight Rates || 



Estimates of annual purchases of foods by a typical workingman's family were obtained from 

 the 1918-19 Cost of Living Survey made by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The 58 foods 

 include meat, dairy and poultry products, bakery and cereal products, a number of fresh and 

 canned fruits and vegetables, and several miscellaneous items. 



* Retail price data are from the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, farm price data are prin- 

 cipally those estimated by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. 



t The index of hourly earnings excludes agricultural workers and was published through 1934 

 by the U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The indexes for years after 1935 have been estimated 

 from hourly earnings in selected industries. 



t No allowance is made for processing taxes on wheat, rye, rice, hogs, corn, peanuts, and sugar, 

 which, on the quantities of these products included in annual family purchases, amounted to 

 about $2.00 in 1933, $10.00 in 1934, and $11.00 in 1935. 



§ In terms of the All-Commodity Wholesale Price Index, 1926 = 100 (B.L.S.) 



II U. S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bur. of Ag. Econ., National Nutrition Conference for Defense, 

 May 26-28, 1941, Sec. 7. 



