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(2) eggs, which are 10% fat, at 200 per dozen (count 9 

 eggs 1 lb.); (3) round steak, which is 13% fat, at 150 per 

 pound ; (4) milk, which is 5% fat, at 50 per quart or 2 lb. 



70. The cost of living may be greatly increased by poor 

 preparation of food, unwise selection of foods for the season, 

 bad stoves, and waste of food. 



EXERCISE 



1. If 300 is the average daily cost per person for raw 

 material, what is the cost of the raw material necessary to 

 supply a family of three grown children and their parents 

 for 1 yr ? 



2. What would be the increased cost of the table supplies 

 in problem 1 if 1\ % were added for a bad oven and waste 

 of food ? 



3. If 200 is the average daily cost per person for raw 

 material, what will it cost to supply the table of a family 

 of 8, adding 2 % for food wasted ? 



4. A huckster has for sale a lot of small, lumpy potatoes, 

 25% of which would be lost in peeling, for 450 per bushel; 

 and a lot of smooth potatoes, 16 % of which would be lost 

 in peeling, for 500 per bushel. Which lot would prove the 

 better economy for the buyer ? 



HEALTH AND SANITATION 



71. Typhoid fever is a filth disease. It is impossible to 

 have it unless the seed, or germs, of the disease are taken 

 into the body. This happens only when the water that 

 we drink or the food that we eat has come in contact with 

 part of the discharges of a person who has had the disease. 

 This is brought about through the agency of flies, through 



