12 BULLETIN 1466, TJ. S. DEPARTMENT OE AGRICULTURE 
6. Maintenance of health. 
Doctors', dentists', oculists', nurses', and hospital services. 
Eyeglasses. 
Medicines. 
Travel to hospitals or for treatments. 
7. Advancement. 
Formal education. 
Tuition and lessons. 
Schoolbooks and supplies. 
Lodging, board, necessary travel, and sundries at school or college. 
Reading matter : Books other than schoolbooks. papers, and magazines. 
Music : Sheet music, music books, phonograph records, etc. 
Indoor games : Checkers, dominoes, etc. 
Apparatus and supplies for amateur scientific work: Photography, 
radio, etc. 
Physical recreation and sport : Athletic supplies, attendance at ball 
games, etc. 
Church organizations, missions, and welfare work. 
Social and educational organizations : Clubs, lodges, fraternal orders, etc. 
Social gatherings : Dances, parties, picnics, fairs. 
Concerts, lectures, theaters, and amateur performances. 
Moving pictures. 
Vacation and other pleasure trips (costs include special trips by auto- 
mobile or other means of travel not necessary for the business of the 
household, and food and lodging specially provided for such trips). 
8. Personal. 
Services of barber and hair dresser, etc. 
Candy, sodas, etc. 
Gifts to family or friends. 
Jewelry (costs include repairs). 
Tobacco, pipes, etc. 
Toilet articles, including toilet soap. 
9. Insurance, life and health. 
10. Unclassified : Exceptional items, emergencies, etc. 
Explanation of several points, in connection with the use of this 
classification in tabulating the data for this study, is necessary. 
Foods as tabulated include meats, poultry, and dairy products, sirups, 
honey, flour, meal, vegetables, fruit, and nuts furnished by the farm 
valued at prices halfway between what the3 T would have brought 
had they been sold and what they would have cost had they been pur- 
chased on the local market, in so far as these prices could be de- 
termined. They also include groceries and other food products pur- 
chased, at prices prevailing in the stores of the localities during the 
year of study. 
Clothing values are arrived at by adding for each member of the 
family the costs as given by the home maker of the separate articles 
of clothing which had been purchased, except in a few cases where 
an estimate of total costs of clothing for the entire family was taken. 
Clothing includes a few gifts received by one or more members of 
several of the families. These gifts consist partly of used garments, 
which are valued at what they were considered worth in comparison 
with new garments of similar kinds. The value of articles of cloth- 
ing made at home includes the costs of materials and of hired labor 
but not of labor given by regular members of the household. The 
value of time spent by women of the household in mending and 
laundering clothing is not included. 
Arbitrary values placed on the farm houses, from which values 
rental charges for use of the houses were obtained, varied somewhat 
with the value of farm land in the different localities. As nearly 
