VALUE OF FOOD, FUEL, AND USE OF HOUSE. 13 
TaBLE I1X.—Dairy products consumed per person in equivalent quarts of whole milk 
(950 families). 
[Data assume 8 quarts of milk make 1 quart of cream and 10 quarts of milk make 1 pound of butter.] 
Total fur- 
County and State. Cream. | Milk. | Butter. peal oe peo nished 
i oe | by farm. 
OSCR PON IG kee ase ie Sees oe Seria 123 126 299 548 142 406 
aroille te Mie eee wet Ve) 178 188 294 660 153 507 
OISEEO, INS GES ORAS Sab Seabee coaguadeend 11 204 377 592 241 351 
BUOY APE io ace se dosusneecobs Sao b Bee oeEos eeaooscces 130 201 331 97 234 
Gilowcesten aN seers eres nr se ereiaieias )-laie 5 184 245 434 92 342 
CASIO INIa Coscasscoussdasseoceesecucnodealspoccnoddt 133 406 539 4 535 
TRTROTRT OY, GN RIS SS cos the ote er Pe ee ede 30 520 DOO esa asco 550 
IM(@ILerabor aS Mey oa BSS CREE S RS Che aa ee col|lscoooabone 43 442 485 1 484 
Champaign Oi ose ye oe ee ee nao 72 258 298 628 21 607 
VE METSOMMAV Seam come waar io eee eer a aiel|inetajoa emilee 152 310 462 132 330 
Monteomeny lower asset en: ote anes 17 252 370 639 7 632 
CT OUGEMIMAIS ee Pie tes CK Fo ts 40 251 350 641 21 620 
(CSS). Nis 1 DEM een 6 Sete a Sars ae aa 136 212 398 746 39 707 
Senay ic, Clam, Calc 6 Seka tat aseneeer aa sa scl lecoscedeon 210 228 438 119 319 
Average, all farms........- ee eee 42 170 338 550 77 473 
FRUITS. 
The value of fruit consumed constitutes 6.4 per cent of the total. 
Sixty-three per cent of this is furnished by the farm. [Fruits include 
a class of food products which can be raised much more cheaply than 
bought. In the North Dakota area, for instance, only one-sixth of 
the fruit used is raised on the farm, and yet the value of the fruit 
consumed in this area is relatively as great as in the other sections, 
owing to the higher price paid per unit quantity of fruit. 
VEGETABLES. 
Table V shows that 11 per cent of the value of the food consumed 
represents vegetables, 79.4 per cent of which are furnished by the 
farm, That the farmer can easily raise most of his vegetables is 
shown by the fact that he raises a greater proportion of this group 
than of any other group. In raising his own vegetables he eliminates 
the cost of transportation and the commission of the middleman, 
which are included in the prices he pays for purchased vegetables. 
In five of the areas visited over 90 per cent of the vegetables used 
are supplied by the farm, in the Georgia area only 1 per cent being 
bought. In some sections certain vegetables will not thrive, owing 
to peculiar soil or climatic conditions. This accounts for some of 
the vegetables bought. : 
EFFECT OF DIFFERENT DIETARY SYSTEMS ON FOOD COST. 
There is a considerable variation in the cost of food for families of 
the same size. This difference may be due either to the fact that 
the members of the family are larger consumers or that they con- 
sume more of the higher-priced foods. In this connection, it is 
interesting to note the effect that the high or low consumption of 
one class of food products has on the quantity of other food con- 
sumed and on the total consumption and also on the relative value 
of food bought and furnished by the farm, 
