This is from
USDA Farmers' Bulletin 1015, dated 1919, "Producing Family and Farm
Supplies on the Cotton Farm:"
In a group of
106 farms in Brooks County, Ga., in a community that makes a specialty
of producing the farm food and farm feeds, the families in 1914
consumed food ranging in value from $104 to $1,283 per family,
averaging $526. Approximately 85 percent of this food was
produced on the farm. That part of the food produced on the farm
constituted an average of 18 percent of the net income of farms having
250 acres or more of crop land and 48 percent of the net income of
farms having less than 75 acres of crop land.
On 149 farms
fairly evenly distributed in Gaston County, N.C., Troup County, Ga.,
and McLennan County, Tex., the average family consumed food to the
value of $454. Of this 69 percent was produced on the farm.
Also from the same
bulletin:
Following is a
list of the foods consumed by the average adult person the the 255
farms in North Carolina, Georgia, and Texas, mentioned above (two
children of 12 years or under being considered equivalent to one adult.)
(per year)
Beans, green 5.7
pecks
Beets 3.5 pecks
Cabbages 14 heads
Cucumbers 2 pecks
Melons 15
Onions 1.5 pecks
Pes 1.13 pecks
Potatoes (Irish)
2 bushels
Potatoes (sweet)
5.11 bushels
Sweet Carn 6.8
dozen
Tomatoes 4.1
pecks
Turnips 4.5 pecks
Apples 1.4
bushels
Pears 0.3 bushels
Peaches 1.5
bushels
Grapes 0.25
bushels
Berries 11.5
quarts
Corn meal 136
pounds
Flour 224 pounds
Sirup 4 gallons
Sugar 54 pounds
Milk (used
as milk, buttermilk and butter) 482 quarts
Beef 12 pounds
Pork and lard
138 pounds
Poultry 57.5
pounds