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BULLETIN 410, U. S. DEPAETMENT OF AGEICULTURE. 



Table XXV. — Value of household labor per family and per person; percentage of labor 



hired (950 families). 



County and State. 



Value of labor. 



Per 



fa mil y, 



Per 

 person. 



Percent- 



of labor 

 hired. 



Oxford, Me 



Lamoille, Vt 



Otsego, N.Y 



Bucks, Pa 



Gloucester, N. J 



Gaston, N. C 



Troup, Ga 



McLennan, Tex 



Champaign^ Ohio 



Jefferson, Wis 



Montgomery, Iowa 



Cloud, Lans 



Ca-ss, N. Dat 



Santa Clara, Cal 



Average, all families 



S238 

 182 

 221 

 214 

 294 

 152 

 138 

 217 

 197 

 177 

 270 

 261 

 334 

 293 



S53 

 38 

 56 

 41 

 63 

 34 

 25 

 41 

 49 

 54 

 64 

 58 

 54 

 60 



VALUE OF BOARD ON THE FARM. 



A general indicatioii of the value of board on the farm may be 

 gained from the data given on the previous pages, showing also what 

 proportion of this cost may be credited to the farm and what propor- 

 tion is paid out in cash. This should be of help in determining the 

 real wages of hired help boarded on the farm when given a definite 

 cash wage and board. 



The main items entering into this cost are food, fuel, and house- 

 hold labor. AU food consumed must be charged to board. Some of 

 the fuel is used for general heating purposes ; therefore, total fuel cost 

 can not justly be included in board charges. Probably two-fifths of 

 the fuel consumed may be said to be used for the preparation of meals 

 or kitchen stove purposes. Household labor is included as a factor 

 in the cost of meals because it plays a very vital part in the prepara- 

 tion of meals and is too generally unappreciated when the matter of 

 boarding hired help is being considered. Two-thirds of the value of 

 household labor seems to be a fair proportion to charge to the cost of 

 board. 



Table XX^rC shows the cost of food, fuel, and house labor per 

 person chargeable to the cost of board. It will be noticed that food 

 constitutes nearly three-fourths of the cost of board, labor nearly 

 one-fourth, and fuel about 3 per cent. The total cost of board per 

 person varies from $9 to $13 per month. The variation in the cost 

 of board, of course is dependent largely on the cost of the food 

 consumed. 



