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BULLETIN 648, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Two- thirds of the value of the food grown consists of animal 
products. On the small farms nearly two-thirds of the animal 
products come from swine, but as the farms increase in size dairy and 
poultry products find a more important place. Likewise, vegetables, 
fruits, and nuts are of more importance on the larger farms. Other 
products, consisting principally of corn meal and sirup, occupy a 
relatively more important place in the diet on the smaller farms. 
By reference to figure 13 it is seen that swine products and dairy 
products each constitute more than one-fourth of the total value of 
family food furnished by the farm, while vegetables make up one- 
sixth of the total, miscellaneous products slightly more than one- 
tenth, poultry and eggs nearly a like amount, and fruit and nuts one- 
twentieth. 
The quantities and the values per farm and per person are shown 
in detail in Table XV for each item of food, both purchased and fur- 
nished by the farm. 
Table XV. — Family food purchased and produced on the farm; amounts and 
values per family and per person (106 farms, Brooks County, Ga.). 
Kinds of food. 
Unit. 
Per family. 
Per person.o 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Quantity. 
Value. 
Purchased: 
Flour 
Pounds 
do 
810 
191 
""55" 
$30.34 
13.37 
7.33 
4.37 
2.60 
14.69 
153 
36 
$5.73 
Sugar 
2.52 
Coffee, tea, cocoa, chocolate, postum 
Rice 
do 
do 
do 
1.38 
10 
.83 
.49 
All other food 
2.77 
72.70 
13.72 
Pounds 
do 
• 770 
185 
471 
111 
145 
35 
89 
13 
21 
Produced on farm: 
Pork 
108. 40 
23.00 
118. 50 
24.50 
21.90 
1.56 
27.40 
15.50 
8.02 
.86 
7.38 
26.10 
8.86 
11.30 
6.80 
6.32 
4.54 
4.12 
3.83 
2.60 
1.80 
.88 
.87 
.83 
1.02 
4.70 
3.75 
2.73 
2.12 
1.77 
1.33 
20.47 
Lard 
4.34 
Dairy products b 
Gallons 
Number 
Dozens 
22.36 
Poultry 
4.62 
Eggs 
4.13 
.29 
Corn (meal and hominy) d 
Bushels 
Gallons 
Stalks 
27.4 
38.6 
524 
.86 
40.9 
52.2 
8.9 
15.2 
5.2 
7.3 
99 
.16 
7.7 
9.85 
1.68 
2.87 
5.17 
2.92 
1.51 
Bushels 
Pounds 
Bushels 
do 
.16 
Pecans 
1.39 
Sweet potatoes 
4.92 
Irish potatoes 
1.67 
do 
2.13 
1.28 
Watermelons ..."...' 
Number 
Bushels 
Heads 
Bushels 
do 
128 
4.4 
83 
3.8 
2.6 
1.6 
2.0 
.9 
.8 
24.15 
.83 
15.67 
.72 
.49 
.30 
.38 
.17 
.15 
1.19 
Tomatoes 
.86 
Cabbage 
.78 
Green corn 
.72 
Okra 
.49 
Onions 
do 
.34 
Squash and pumpkins 
do 
.17 
Cucumbers. " * 
do 
.16 
Beets 
do 
.16 
.19 
Grapes (scuppernong) 
Bushels 
do 
3.9 
1.9 
2.3 
2.1 
.74 
.36 
.43 
.40 
.89 
.71 
Figs 
do 
.52 
Pears 
do 
.40 
.33 
Apples and vinegar 
.25 
Total food produced 
453.29 
85.52 
i 
Note.— Values of food produced represent sale values on the farm. 
o Adult equivalent. 
b Milk, cream, and butter expressed as their equivalents in gallons of whole milk. 
c Honey, $1.52; goats and kids, $0.04. 
d Includes some corn bread and hominy fed to dogs and chickens. 
* Lima beans, snap beans, and cowpeas. 
