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the South and lowest in the North. The farmers in the South also 

 get more of their meat directly from the farm than those of the North. 

 Poultry is included in Table VIII as a meat, but in Table VII it is 

 included under poultry products. Of the meat that is bought, two- 

 thirds is beef and the rest is pork and fish. 



Table VIII. — Relative value of different kinds of meats furnished by,farm and proportion 

 of meats furnished by farm and bought (950 families). 



Location of regions in wliicli study was made 

 (county and State). 



Per cent of value of meats 

 furnished by farm. 



Pork. 



Beef. 



Poultry. 



Per cent of value 

 of all meats. 



Boueht. 



Fur- 

 nished by 

 farm. 



Oxford, Me 



Lamoille, Vt 



Otsego, N.Y 



Bucks, Pa 



Gloucester, N. .T 



Gaston,N.C 



Troup, Ga 



McLennan, Tex 



Champaign, Ohio 



Jefferson, Wis 



Montgomery, Iowa 



Cloud. Kans 



Case,N.Dak 



Santa Clara, Cal 



Average, all farms 



50.6 

 51.9 

 47.5 

 63.9 

 69.4 

 81.4 

 71.9 

 75.6 

 69.1 

 70.0 

 59.4 

 50.8 

 56.6 

 33.9 



11.1 

 21.1 

 17.9 

 18.8 

 5.0 

 1.2 

 5.4 



38.3 

 27.0 

 34.6 

 17.3 

 25.6 

 17.4 

 22.7 

 24.4 

 25.5 

 21.3 

 29.2 

 32.1 

 30.1 

 63.0 



35.1 

 33.8 

 43.6 

 40.2 

 4L2 

 6.3 

 9.2 

 24.6 

 13.7 

 20.9 

 15.7 

 15.1 

 37.1 

 24.0 



64.9 

 66.2 

 56.4 

 59.8 

 58.8 

 93.7 

 90.8 

 75.4 

 86.3 

 79.1 

 84.3 

 84.9 

 62.9 

 76.0 



60. 



10.0 



29.2 



25.8 



74.2 



DAIRY PRODUCTS. 



The dairy products group, including cream, milk, butter, and 

 cheese, amounts to $98 as an average annual consumption per family 

 for all families visited. As stated before, 14 per cent of these products 

 are bought and 86 per cent are furnished by the farm. Considerable 

 butter is bought, but very little milk and cream. 



Table IX shows the quantity of dairy products consumed, expressed 

 in terms of quarts of milk. It is assumed that on the average 8 

 quarts of milk make 1 quart of cream and 10 quarts of milk make 

 1 pound of butter. Reducing the items to quarts of milk, it will be 

 seen that the average annual consumption per person fOr all families 

 visited is 550 quarts. The consumption per person varied in different 

 areas from 434 to 746 quarts. More cream and butter were used 

 in those areas where butter was made on the farm. The farm supplied 

 473 of the 550 quarts. , The average number of persons per family 

 for the families visited is 4.8, making the average number of quarts 

 of milk furnished by the farm for home consumption 2,270 per year. 

 In the southern areas it is assumed that the milk churned for home 

 consumption of butter will furnish enough buttermilk for the family, 

 and thus the equivalent of milk for the butter will cover that for 

 buttermilk. 



