FAMILY LIVING FROM THE FARM 3 
used in their production are sometimes by-products or wastes from 
the business. Frequently some of the family living from the farm 
has little or no market value, and some of it is not of the better market 
grades. Farm families often utilize little potatoes, overripe or under- 
sized fruits, eggs with soiled shells, etc., for family use, and many 
of the garden vegetables grown on the farms in some localities can 
not be sold. On the other hand, the hogs, butter, poultry, etc., which 
go to make up part of the family living from the farm usually have a 
ready market. The value of the house rent includes interest and de- 
preciation on the house, and the cash costs of insurance, taxes, and 
repairs on the house. 
LOCALITIES STUDIED 
This bulletin presents the available data which it is practicable to 
assemble at the present time (1925) on the family living from the farm 
as obtained in connection with farm business surveys made by the 
SURVEYS 
• "Farm Business " 
x' 'Value of Food, Fuel and House Rent" 
A"Cost of Living of' Farm Families" 
Each Survey includes "Family Living 
from the Farm" 
Fig. 2.— Localities from which the data in this bulletin were obtained 
United States Department of Agriculture and the State agricultural 
colleges and experiment stations for the years 1918 to 1922. For 
comparison, data on the cost of food, fuel, and house rent to farm 
families for 1913 and 1914, and for 1919 to 1923 are included, as are 
data on the cost of living in farm homes for 1919 to 1923. 
The farm business data were obtained from 30 localities well scat- 
tered over the United States (fig. 2). They total 7,738 records and 
represent varying types of farming under various topographic, soil, 
climatic, and marketing conditions. Dairy farms in the hills of 
New England and in Wisconsin, the cotton plantations of the Southern 
States, the citrus groves and early truck farms of Florida, the or- 
chards of the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia and near Niagara Falls 
in New York, the grain and livestock farms of the Corn Belt, grain 
farms and grazing in the Great Plains region, extensive wheat farms 
in the Palouse country of Idaho and Washington and in northern 
Oregon, and farms under irrigation in the West and Northwest are all 
