FAMILY LIVING FROM THE FAEM 
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Table 5. — Cost of living of farm families and value of the family living from the 
farm 
Localities 
Year 
Number 
of farm 
families 
Cost of 
living of 
farm 
families 
Cost of 
food, 
house 
rent, 
and fuel 
Value of 
the 
family 
living 
from the 
farm i 
New York, Livingston County..- . 1920-21 
Kentucky: 
Mason County ... 1922-23 
Bluegrass region i 1919 
Iowa, Boone, Story, and Sac Counties 1922-23 
Tennessee, Madison, Montgomery, and Williamson 
Counties 1919-1921 
Texas, Blaok Prairie 1919 
360 
241 
451 
Total and averages. 
2,074 
Maine, Oxford County 1914 
Vermont, Lamville County j 1913 
New York, Otsego County 1913 
New Jersey, Gloucester County 1914 
Pennsylvania, Bucks County 1913 
North Carolina, Gaston County 1913 
Georgia, Troup County 1913 
Ohio, Champaign County 1913 
Wisconsin, Jefferson County 1913 
Iowa, Montgomery County 1913 
North Dakota, Cass County 1914 
Kansas, Cloud County 1913 
Texas, McLennan County 1913 
California, Santa Clara County 1914 
Total and averages. 
148 
49 
55 
126 
43 
55 
50 
44 
46 
51 
109 
46 
44 
84 
950 
$2, 012 
1,614 
1,801 
1,680 
1,122 
1,453 
$1, 172 
1,095 
977 
631 
804 
599 
526 
641 
790 
608 
504 
630 
607 
548 
668 
948 
604 
617 
671 
697 
461 
486 
623 
355 
349 
431 
445 
383 
428 
520 
451 
375 
485 
578 
426 
363 
341 
426 
i Included in each of the two preceding columns. 
THE FARM BUSINESS 
Certain terms as used in this bulletin are denned as follows : 
Farm. — All the land operated as one unit — that is, with one set of equipment. 
Farmer. — The one who directs the operations of the farm. 
Farm family. — The farmer and his family. It includes relatives or others 
living with the farmers, who do not pay board or to whom no wages are paid. 
It does not include any hired laborers boarding with the family, or any boarders, 
as school teachers. 
Family living from the farm. — The food products set aside from the year's 
production, and the fuel and house rent furnished directly by the farm for the 
living of the farm family. This is in addition to farm receipts, farm income, 
labor income, and family income as defined below. 
Farm capital. — The value at the beginning of the farm year of all real estate, 
machinery, livestock, and other property used to carry on the farm business. 
It includes the value of the farm dwelling, but not of the household furnishings. 
Farm receipts. — Proceeds from the sale of crops produced during the farm 
year, the increase from stock, and the receipts from outside labor, rent of build- 
ings, etc. The increase from stock is found by subtracting the sum of the amount 
paid for stock purchases and the inventory value at the beginning of the year 
from the receipts from stock products, sales of livestock, and the inventory value 
at the end of the year. If the value of crops or supplies on hand at the end of the 
year to be carried over for the next year's business is greater than at the beginning, 
the difference is considered a receipt. Farm receipts do not include the family 
living from the farm. 
Farm expenses. — Annual expenditures made in carrying on the farm business, 
including the value of the unpaid labor performed by members of the family, and 
depreciation on buildings and equipment, and excluding the value of the farm- 
er's own labor. If the value of crops or supplies at the end of the year to be 
carried over for the next year's business was less than at the beginning, this is 
considered an expense. Household or personal expenses are not included. 
