FOOD OF RURAL CHILDREN 



125 



Fruit or raw 

 vegetable 



Cake, cookies 

 doughnuts 



Potato and 

 — — 1 vegetable 



— Potato and 



vegetables 



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No milk 



~ Pudding 



_ _ Coffee or tea 



CHART 10. The Distribution of the Principal Items in the Day's Meals of 94 

 CARVER and 93 SOXJTHWICK Children of Native and Mixed Parentage. 



In the records of 94 Carver children of native stock for whom a day's 

 meiius were secured, potatoes were the most frequent item on the list; fruit 

 or raw vegetables (mainly apples and oranges) next; meat third; cake, cook- 

 ies, and doughnuts fourth; milk or cocoa fifth; pie sixth; then eggs, vegetables, 

 leafy vegetables, puddings; and last coffee or tea. 



In the day's menus for 93 Southwick children of native stock, potatoes took 

 first place as in Carver; milk, which was fifth in Carver, was second in South- 



