128 STORRS AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. 

No, 24. DIETARY OF A LABORER’S FAMILY, IN HARTFORD, 
CONNEC TICU 4 
The study began December, 1894, and continued 14 days. _ The members of 
the family and number of meals taken were as follows: 
Man, = 2 c : E : - . = - 42 meals, 
Woman, (42 x .8) equivalent to - ~ - = - 34 meals. 
Girl, 11 years old (42 x .6) equivalent to - 2 - - 25 meals, 
Girl, 6 years old (42 x .5), equivalent to - - - - 21 meals. 
Girl 4 years old (42 x .4), equivalent to - - -° +» -17 meals, 
Boy, 2% years old (42 x .4), equivalent to = - -- “1 7omealss 
Infant, equivalent to - - - - - - - 12 meals. 
Total number of meals taken equivalent to - - 168 meals. 
Equivalent to one man 56 days. 
Remarks.—The father was a laborer in a coal yard, earning $8.00 per week 
when working full time. During the two weeks of this study he earned $8.83. 
The mother worked in the laundry when possible. 
‘‘ They pay $8.00 per month rent for four rooms and a small shed room on 
the second floor. The rooms are decently furnished, and, being small, three of 
the rooms are warmed in winter by the cook stove. The mother before mar- 
riage worked as a servant, and understands cooking.”’ 
“The children are kept in the house nearly all the time, as the mother said 
they learned ‘bad ways’ if they played with the other children,” 
The father is an Irish-American, the mother was born in England. 
TABLE 21. 
Cost and weights of food materials in dietary of a laborer’s family 
| an Llartford, Conn. 

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Foop MaterIALs. s 8 Weight. || Foop MareEriaLs. o 2 | Weight. 
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Beef. $ | Lbs. | Ozs. | g$ | Lbs. | Ozs. 
Neck, - - -|M|.20]} 2] — || Eggs, = | 541,25 s/n eee 
Shoulder steak (a),| 32| .55 | 5 | — Butter, : - | M/.65.)- 24) — 
Bologna sausage, - | 35|.10|] 1 | — ‘| Milk, - - | Mi).98 | ssn ao 
Suet, - - - |M/ .0o2| — | 6.0]| Flour (a), - | 67] .50 | 22 )10.0 
Veal, Rice,= 5 - > =s}o 77) 223 metee 
Shoulder, - - |37|.32| 4 | — || Rolled oats(a),- | 76) .14| 2] 5.5 
Nitin, Bread, - = -:| ST)7. 85S sie oco 
Neck, - ‘ Cai aa oS pple eee and 
Breast, Hs Suliyil Be'e re ce oug pe ={9O}| 522 IY}. 9.5 
Pluck, - é las | eee ee ee granulated,| M] .55 |} rr | — 
eans, dried, -/} M}.20| 3 |13.5 
Pork. || Onions, - - |100] .07 | 6 | 12.0 
Spare rib(a), -|46|.43| 5 | — | Potatoes, -  - |102| .66 | 51 |12.0 
Ham, edible por- || Raisins é ~ | 24). 1Ouh) Tae 
tion (a), - SEN OT GS aire 
alt tats er ASB Aas LO Waste (a), - |120/ — | — | 8.s 
Fish. 
(Codteal tian. off MEA S30 Ne 284s 

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