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Table 67. — Food consumption — Continued 

 d. FRUITS AND REFRESHMENTS 



e. SUMMARY 



Item 



Staples --- 



Poultry, eggs, meat products and fish. 



Vegetables and herbs 



Fruit and refreshment - 



Total ---- 



Value 



Produced in 

 community 



$2, 898, 10 

 188.50 

 546.87 

 498.78 



4, 132. 25 



Bought out- 

 side 



$5, 254, 61 



6, 038, 98 



521,99 



272, 45 



11,088.03 



Total 



$8, 152. 71 



5, 227, 48 



1,068,86 



771.23 



15, 220. 28 



> Total ot previous column, times 49 (unless otherwise indicated), the result corrected as indicated in tejt. 



' When a sufficient amount Is grown within the community, all is put in this column, in spite of the fact that an individual may buy what Is actually pro- 

 duced el.'iewhere. in a market. This may occur even with onions when the individual does not happen to grow them. 

 * Includes red beans, sometimes substituted but not important, 

 i Multiplied by 111 instead of 49. 

 « Quantity not known; hiformation given In money value, and price not known. 



No. 58 reports using com and lime in a ratio of 15 

 to 1 ; No. 49, almost 27 to 1 ; No. 37, a little less 

 than 8 to 1 ; and No. 1 , 7 to 1 . A difEculty is that 

 linie is used for other than cooking purposes, and I 

 suspect that this has caused some confusion. An 

 informant discussing fiesta needs said that for 150 

 pounds of com, a half pound of lime is used — a 

 ratio of 300 to 1, which seems impossible. Rosales 

 reports that in general Ks of }{ pound of lime is 

 cooked with 3 pounds of com — ratio of 90 to 1 

 (com to Ume). It seems to me most Ukely, on the 

 basis of these contradictions, that the proportion 

 may be something like 60 to 1, and if that is the 

 case, 5,200 pounds were used in 1936. 



(5, 4) Beans. — Black beans are commonly 

 cooked, typically without fat, as part of the daily 

 diet. Red beans are very occasionally substituted, 

 and white beans are used almost exclusively for 

 certain holidays. Beans must be considered a 

 semilu.xury food; if corn is the bread, beans are 

 the butter. A richer family certainly tends to use 

 more beans than a poorer family, relative to family 

 size and to corn; but the difference is not as sharp 

 as in the cases of more expensive foods. Although 

 it might be expected therefore that the three 

 families are a little high m their use of beans, 

 other data (e. g., that of 1941) induce me to forego 

 a correction, except to add 1,186 pounds of black 



