30 BULLETIN 1466, U. S. DEPAKTMENT OE AGRICULTURE 
NUMBER AND PERCENTAGE OF FAMILIES OF DIFFERENT LEVELS OF LIVING 
Slightly more than a fifth of the 2,886 families, 21.3 per cent 
(Table 7), were on a $1,200 to $1,499 level of living; a fifth, 20.1 
per cent, were on a $900 to $1,199 level ; and less than a fifth, 17 per 
cent, were on a $1,500 to $1,799 level. Thus almost three-fifths of 
the families, 58.4 per cent, consumed goods valued somewhere be- 
tween $900 and $1,800. About the same number of families were 
using less than $900 worth and more than $2,399 worth of goods, 
11.7 per cent of the total number in the former and 11.6 per cent of 
the total number in the latter instance. 
COMPARISONS FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS OF FAMILIES 
OWNERS, TENANTS, AND HIRED MEN OF THIS STUDY 
From the standpoint of the total value of all goods used, owners 
used more than did tenants or hired men, the average values of goods 
being $1,717.30 for owners, $1,356.70 for tenants, and $1,237.50 for 
hired men. (Table 1.) The average size of family and household 
should be noted. Tenant families, one-tenth of a person, or 2.3 per 
cent larger in size than owner families, lived on approximately 20 
per cent less goods than did the owner families, on an average. 
Hired-man families, with the same average number of persons as 
owner families, consumed about 28 per cent less goods than did the 
owner families. Hired-man families, one-tenth of a person, or 2.3 
per cent smaller in size than tenant families, consumed about 9 per 
cent less goods than did the tenant families. 
Differences in the size of household are practically the same as 
the differences in the size of family, tenant households being 0.1 
of a person larger and hired-man households being 0.1 of a person 
smaller than owner households. In view of this, additional allowance 
due to the number of persons per household need not be made in 
comparisons for the different tenure groups. 
Over two-fifths, 42.4 per cent, of the owner's family living was 
furnished by the iarm. A slightly higher proportion of the tenants' 
living, 44.1 per cent, and a slightly lower proportion of the hired 
man's living, 41.4 per cent, were furnished. Thus, owner families 
used $989.60 worth of goods provided by direct purchase in com- 
parison with $758.40 worth of purchased goods used by tenant fami- 
lies and $725 worth of purchased goods used by hired-man families. 
From the standpoint of the distribution of the total value of goods 
for various purposes, owner families appear to have lived slightly 
better than did tenant or hired-man families. Practically two-fifths, 
39.9 per cent, of the total value of goods used was devoted to food 
with owners in comparison with 44.7 per cent of the total devoted 
to food with the tenants and 44.2 per cent of the total devoted to 
food with the hired men. 
Owner families used most clothing, the average expenditures for 
clothing being $254.20, $197.30,^ and $161.10 per family for owners, 
tenants, and hired men, respectively. 
Owners lived in better houses than did tenants or hired men, the 
average rental charge for use of the house — 10 per cent of the esti- 
mated total value of the house — (Table 1) being $219.90 for own- 
