Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Average Quantity, Cost and Nutritive Value of Food Consumed by Farm Families: Food Consumed During One Year by 1331 Farm Families of Selected Localities in Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Ohio; A Preliminary Report
The food consumption data, tabulated with the help of E. L. Kirkpatrick of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture and the publishers of The Farmer's Wife of St. Paul, Minnesota, are presented in Tables 5 to 9 arranged according to states and all states combined. Consumption figures in pounds and cost are given for the eighty five foodstuffs included in the farm diet in terms of the amount used per year by the average family and by the average adult-male unit, These were obtained by dividing the total amount consumed by the total number of families and by the total number of adult-male units for energy included in the study. The number of families that used each foodstuff and the proportion of each foodstuff purchased are also given. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
