Authors

H. McCullough

Document Type

Circular

Type

text

Format

application/pdf

Keywords

agricultural economics department, family food budget, household budgets, utilizing farm products, farm supplied household products

Publication Date

10-1922

Publisher

Agricultural Extension Service, South Dakota State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts

Circular No.

68

Pages

4

Description

One hundred fifty years ago a farm family raised practically all of its food and made most of its clothing as well as the simple tools that were used in farm work. Then came the opening up of the West, the building of railroads and the invention and general use of modern farm machinery. Crain, livestock and livestock products were raised in large quantities and sold. Part of the money from these sales was used to buy the clothing, household equipment and food which had previously been made or raised on the farm. No one today would care to go back to homespun clothes and wooden plowshares, but many people do feel that we have gone too far in the other direction and that the farm should be made to contribute a larger share of the family living than it now does.

Language

en

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