6 BULLETIN 1466, IT. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGEICULTTJEE 
The detailed tabulation of the quantities and values of food, cloth- 
ing, furnishings, and equipment, and fuel and other household sup- 
plies used by the families of the Ohio, Kentucky, Missouri, and 
Kansas units of study was made possible by the cooperation of the 
Farmer's Wife, St. Paul, Minn. This tabulation resulted in several 
preliminary reports issued jointly by the Bureau of Agriculture 
Economics and the Bureau of Home Economics. A more detailed 
and a more extensive tabulation of the data on food and clothing 
from all the schedules available is now being made by the Bureau 
of Home Economics. 
LOCALITIES STUDIED 
The economic level of farm business resources and of farm family 
living was the chief consideration in the selection of localities repre- 
sented in this study. For the first attempt to define the farmer's 
standard of living, it seemed advisable to paint the economic picture 
neither too dark nor too light. In order to do this, it was essential 
to choose localities in which average farming conditions prevail. 
Localities with indications of extremely high or extremely low 
economic levels were avoided, with the exception of one or two 
cases where the economic level of the locality in question seemed to 
be about average for an entire county. Only white farm families 
are included in this study. 
New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Kentucky, 
South Carolina, Alabama, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Ohio are 
the States in which the localities of the study are situated. The 
number of localities in the different States, as well as the number 
of families in the different localities varies from 1 locality of almost 
400 families in Ohio to 8 localities of approximately 40 families each 
and 15 localities of 5 to 15 families each in Alabama. 
Only one locality each was studied in New Hampshire, Vermont, 
and Connecticut. These localities, situated in Merrimack, Franklin, 
and New London Counties of the three States in the order named 
above, represent the types of farming most prevalent in New Eng- 
land dairy farming and general farming. One of the two localities 
studied in Massachusetts, that situated in Franklin County, is 
typical of dairy and general farming. The other locality, lying in 
Middlesex County, is typical of a region of more intensified farming, 
where the production of milk, poultry, vegetables, and fruits for 
roadside and city markets is important. 
Localities chosen in Kentucky, South Carolina, and Alabama rep- 
resent the types of farming predominant in the South. All homes 
studied in Kentucky are in one locality of Mason County, a region 
of general farming with tobacco as an important cash crop. Locali- 
ties in South Carolina lie in Dillon, Clarendon, Hampton, Green- 
wood, and Newberry Counties. Localities in Alabama were confined 
largely to Pike, Coosa, Lee, Madison, Marion, Jefferson, Clay, and 
Baldwin Counties. The Jefferson County locality is characteristic 
of a rather specialized type of farming with milk, vegetables, and 
fruits for the markets of Birmingham as the main sources of family 
income. 
Localities in Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Ohio are typical of the 
Central West where general farming prevails, with corn, small 
