The Farmers Standard Of Living PDF Download

Excerpt from The Farmer's Standard of Living: A Socio-Economic Study of 2, 886 White Farm Families of Selected Localities in 11 States Comparisons of these studies and those made later among groups of somewhat higher incomes led to the broad generalization that, as the income increases, the percentage or the proportion of the income devoted to the satisfaction of cultural wants increases and that the proportion of the total expenditures spent for cultural purposes or advancement may be regarded as an index of the standard of living. A variation of the amount of money spent, that is, of the value of goods used annually, by the families of the present study is the pro portion of the total value of family living furnished by the farm. This is given some consideration as a measure of the standard of living. Usually from one-third to one-half of the value of the farm family's living represents food products, use of the house, and fuel furnished from the farm. This part of the family living is not to be had free of cost to the farmer, however. It represents labor (paid and unpaid), capital, and sometimes credit, if not a small outlay of cash for storage purposes or for preparation of the goods Which are furnished. 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.