VALUE OF FOOD, FUEL, AND USE OF HOUSE. 



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Table IX. — Dairy products consumed per person in equivalent quarts of whole milk 



(950 families). 



[Data assume 8 quarts of milk make 1 quart of cream and 10 quarts of mUk make 1 pound of butter.] 



County and State. 



Cream. 



Milk. 



Butter. 



Total con- 

 sumed. 



Total 

 bought. 



Total fur- 

 nislied 

 by farm. 



Oxford, Me 



Lamoille, Vt 



Otsego, N.Y 



Bucks, Pa.... 



Gloucester, N. J 



Gaston, N.C 



Troup, Ga 



McLennan, Tex 



Champaign, Ohio . . 



Jeflerson, Wis 



Montgomery, Iowa. 



Cloud, Kans 



Cass, N. Dak 



Santa Clara, Cal 



123 

 178 

 11 



72 



17 

 40 

 136 



204 

 130 

 184 

 133 

 30 

 43 

 258 

 152 

 252 

 251 

 212 

 210 



299 

 294 

 377 

 201 

 245 

 406 

 520 

 442 

 298 

 310 

 370 

 350 

 398 

 228 



548 

 660 

 592 

 331 

 434 

 539 

 550 

 485 

 628 

 462 

 639 

 641 

 746 

 438 



142 



153 



241 



97 



92 



4 



1 



21 

 132 

 7 

 21 

 39 

 119 



406 

 507 

 351 

 234 

 342 

 535 

 550 

 484 

 607 

 330 

 632 

 620 

 707 

 319 



Average, all farms. 



170 



338 



550 



77 



FRUITS. 



The value of fruit consumed constitutes 6.4 per cent of the total. 

 Sixty-three per cent of this is furnished by the farm. Fruits include 

 a class of food products which can be raised much more cheaply than 

 bought. In the North Dakota area, for instance, only one-sixth of 

 the fruit used is raised on the farm, and yet the value of the fruit 

 consumed in this area is relatively as great as in the other sections, 

 owing to the higher price paid per unit quantity of fruit. 



VEGETABLES. 



Table V shows that 11 per cent of the value of the food consumed 

 represents vegetables, 79.4 per cent of which are furnished by the 

 farm. That the farmer can easily raise most of his vegetables is 

 shown by the fact that he raises a greater proportion of this group 

 than of any other group. In raising his own vegetables he eliminates 

 the cost of transportation and the commission of the middleman, 

 which are included in the prices he pays for purchased vegetables. 

 In five of the areas visited over 90 per cent of the vegetables used 

 are suppUed by the farm, in the Georgia area only 1 per cent being 

 bought. In some sections certain vegetables will not thrive, owing 

 to peculiar soil or climatic conditions. This accounts for some of 

 the vegetables bought. 



EFFECT OF DIFFERENT DIETARY SYSTEMS ON FOOD COST. 



There is a considerable variation in the cost of food for families of 

 the same size. This difference may be due either to the fact that 

 the members of the family are larger consumers or that they con- 

 sume more of the higher-priced foods. In this connection, it is 

 interesting to note the effect that the high or low consumption of 

 one class of food products has on the quantity of other food con- 

 sumed and on tho total consumption and also on the relative value 

 of food bought and furnished by tho farm. 



