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U.S. Department of Commerce

Rogers C. Morton, Secretary

James L. Pate, Assistant Secretary

for Economic Affairs

BUREAU OF THE CENSUS

Vincent P. Barabba, Director
PATTERS'S

Series 881-915. Apparent Civilian Per Capita Consumption of Foods: 1849 to 1970-Con.

pounds, except

4.3

cane

G 899-915

1.9

1.6

Coffee

bean

basis)

1963

1968

1957

98.9

98.9

98.7

96.0

98.6

98.6

101.4

101.4

103.8

105.9

102.3

103.7

106.4

107.0

105.2

107.2

109.1

111.6

111.9

115.2

116.2

123.0

122.4

129.9

134.3

123.9

116.7

119.0

113.3

1939

1935

116.9

116.6

114.5

111.0

112.5

111.2

115.2

104.5

108.8

108.3

111.9

112.6

104.2

106.0

100.6

101.3

100.9

90.1

82.2

Sugar, Sugar, cane and Cheese and Cheese and cane

beet beet beet

densed

and Cheese and Cheese and

beet (refined)

906 907 911 907 911 907 911

(refined) Year (refined) Year (refined) Year Year

906 907 911 

1908- 5.1 3.8 1901- 3.0 4.5 68.7 2.9 66.7 1887.- 3.2 52.7

4.7 3.5 77.5 2.7 3.7 65.2 2.9 64.4 2.8 56.9

4.4 3.5 76.1 1899- 2.5 3.7 62.6 3.7 63.8 3.0 51.8

4.1 4.1 70.5 3.4 61.5 1891.- 3.5 66.3 1884.- 3.1

3.8 4.1 75.3 3.6 64.8 1890.- 3.8 52.8 1883.-

4.0 70.9 1896- 2.9 62.5 3.5 51.8 1882.- 3.1

1880.

1879.

1878.

1877.

Sugar,

cane

and

beet

(refined)

911

Year

3.2 4.0 72.8 2.9 63.4 3.5 56.7 3.2

42.7

38.1

33.6

46.1

38.5

40.3

and

urkey

910

Sugar,

cane

and

beet

Pea- nuts

Dry

beans

903

5.9

6.8

6.3

6.9

6.3

6.6

7.6

7.6

7.6

7.9

7.3

7.7

7.7

7.6

8.0

7.5

8.0

7.6

8.1

8.1

8.6

6.9

6.8

6.5

8.7

7.8

8.1

8.9

11.1

8.8

8.4

9.3

9.6

7.8

9.0

8.4

9.1

7.1

7.4

8.8

9.5

7.8

8.6

8.7

7.6

7.3

7.8

5.9

5.1

4.8

5.7

5.4

7.4

7.5

5.1

5.8

6.4

6.1

6.8

6.3

6.5

6.8

Vegetables Dairy products

Frozen

-I ___

anned

900

Fluid

milk

and

:ream

905

264

272

280

285

297

302

304

307

308

312

322

330

337

344

348

348

346

346

350

350

348

352

355

369

389

399

381

371

354

334

331

332

329

331

330

326

322

337

339

335

337

840

337

336

338

337

336

328

342

346

348

335

361

328

315

318

321

342

355

301

315

343

I

Con- densed

and

evapo- rated

milk

906

7.1

7.9

8.9

9.0

9.7

10.6

11.3

11.6

12.5

13.3

13.7

14.4

14.8

15.4

15.8

16.2

16.3

17.4

17.6

18.3

20.1

19.8

20.2

20.4

18.6

18.3

15.7

18.8

18.4

18.5

19.3

17.8

17.2

16.7

15.9

16.2

13.8

14.0

13.4

18.6

13.6

12.3

11.7

11.8

11.7

11.9

11.4

10.9

9.9

8.6

9.8

10.3

9.4

9.6

9.5

8.9

7.9

7.1

6.4

5.8

6.5

,

Corn

flour

and

meal

902

23.3

23.1

22.4

22.4

22.0

23.6

23.0

24.5

23.1

24.8

25.8

24.5

26.4

24.4

27.4

29.6

29.0

28.2

25.7

26.1

24.8

26.9

27.3

28.0

30.6

29.7

28.0

21.8

22.5

24.5

26.6

25.4

27.2

28.8

26.4

27.2

25.6

25.3

27.1

32.8

33.0

32.1

30.6

30.8

36.4

34.4

35.7

29.1

37.3

54.9

31.8

24.8.

Wheat

flour

912

110

112

112

112

112

113

114

114

115

118

118

120

12

119

121

123

126

128

131

133

135

136

137

139

156

161

149

163

157

156

155

158

160

159

163

158

157

162

170

169

171

177

179

181

182

180

180

180

180

167

179

192

179

191

204

205

207

209

211

213

214

217

Total

for

904

Ice

cream

(prod- uct

908

Fresh

Year (farm

weight)

901 907 909 911 913 914

53.1

52.3

49.1

48.7

47.2

47.5

45.0

44.7

45.2

45.0

44.1

43.9

43.4

41.9

43.3

42.0

42.1

42.1

39.0

37.9

40.5

43.2

34.4

37.0

39.7

36.9

34.4

31.8

31.1

29.4

27.7

26.2

23.3

22.0

22.1

25.8

28.4

23.0

22.3

25.9

25.7

28.0

21.5

17.1

16.9

18.5

21.3

22.3

18.9

16.1

18.0

19.2

19.8

18.7

15.6

14.5

15.3

20.8

18.9

18.2

16.6

15.8

13.8

13.5

11.6

11.3

9.9

9.7

8.9

8.1

7.3

6.6

5.9

5.4

5.3

4.3

3.4

3.0

3.0

2.6

2.0

1.9

1.6

1.1

.

664

570

577

581

604

620

632

632

641

641

653

667

682

687

702

706

697

689

698

712

740

734

723

768

786

788

763

750

832

803

818

824

796

797

792

800

313

814

832

838

819

811

304

813

818

802

796

781

783

768

736

733

725

747

751

754

745

755

11.5

11.0

10.6

10.1

9.8

9.6

9.4

9.2

9.2

3.6

8.3

8.0

8.1

7.7

8.0

7.9

7.9

7.5

7.6

7.2

7.7

7.3

6.9

6.9

6.7

6.7

4.9

4.9

6.4

5.9

6.0

6.0

5.9

5.5

5.4

5.3

4.9

4.6

4.4

4.5

4.7

4.7

4.4

4.6

4.6

4.7

4.6

4.5

4.3

4.2

4.0

4.2

3.9

3.7

3.8

4.1

4.2

4.2

3.9

4.0

17.7

18.0

18.4

17.8

18.2

18.5

18.3

17.9

18.0

18.3

17.8

18.0

13.0

17.4

18.0

17.9

17.4

17.2

17.6

18.5

20.1

23.1

15.7

14.3

13.1

15.8

11.4

11.0

10.6

9.5

8.1

7.1

6.1

6.3

9.8

10.7

9.9

9.9

9.5

9.7

8.8

9.0

8.2

7.6

7.6

6.8

6.4

4.8

4.3

3.9

3.4

3.0

2.7

2.3

49.5

47.4

45.4

45.8

43.9

40.9

38.5

37.5

37.0

37.4

34.2

35.2

34.0

31.4

29.6

26.3

28.1

26.7

26.8

26.1

24.7

22.9

21.4

21.7

23.1

25.1

23.1

25.7

20.7

18.3

17.0

16.6

15.0

15.9

15.9

14.8

15.3

16.7

16.0

15.6

17.2

15.7

14.6

15.2

14.2

14.3

13.7

14.6

14.2

13.4

13.7

14.2

13.3

13.3

13.8

14.4

14.5

14.5

14.9

15.6

15.5

14.7

102.5

100.1

100.1

97.3

97.6

96.6

96.6

96.7

97.3

97.8

97.6

96.4

96.8

95.0

97.8

96.3

95.6

97.2

97.1

94.0

100.6

96.4

94.1

95.1

75.1

73.9

89.5

80.7

81.8

104.3

95.7

100.8

95.2

96.4

97.3

97.8

93.7

93.7

94.7

100.5

109.6

96.9

103.7

102.4

104.5

104.3

99.5

90.5

104.4

87.3

7.4

7.4

7.4

7.2

6.9

6.6

6.2

5.9

6.1

6.3

6.6

7.0

7.4

7.9

8.3

8.7

9.3

9.8

10.4

10.8

11.8

12.7

12.8

13.1

15.2

17.6

19.2

20.5

19.8

20.6

21.8

21.7

22.1

22.8

24.2

24.7

25.3

25.7

26.5

26.6

28.3

30.5

29.9

28.8

28.9

29.4

32.4

35.8

36.4

34.4

35.4

49.7

46.5

45.1

44.3

45.0

45.9

49.6

51.1

53.0

5.9

5.9

5.8

5.7

5.5

5.6

5.3

5.0

4.9

4.9

4.9

4.7

4.5

4.5

4.4

4.1

4.2

4.4

4.4

4.6

4.5

4.1

4.6

4.5

5.3

6.6

6.0

5.7

6.2

4.8

5.0

4.4

4.3

4.4

4.6

4.0

3.3

3.6

4.1

4.4

3.2

4.1

3.8

3.9

3.4

3.6

3.5

3.2

2.7

2.7

3.0

4.6

2.8

4.2

2.8

2.8

2.5

2.5

2.3

2.3

2.5

2.4

13.8

14.2

14.9

14.8

14.5

14.8

15.3

15.7

15.9

15.8

15.8

15.9

15.5

15.7

15.8

14.7

16.9

16.9

16.6

16.1

18.7

18.4

17.4

20.1

16.4

15.8

12.9

13.6

15.9

15.5

14.9

14.9

13.3

13.7

13.4

12.3

12.8

12.4

13.0

12.5

12.2

11.9

12.2

12.4

10.6

12.2

12.6

11.8

12.0

11.7

11.8

10.0

12.1

11.5

10.6

9.2

9.0

10.8

8.3

9.2

Cheese

319

318

321

324

314

314

318

318

327

329

335

352

354

362

369

371

376

379

390

393

389

383

389

383

379

403

354

347

318

311

319

313

310

308

289

280

289

296

813

333

331

334

838

342

339

318

324

326

316

300

299

303

284

281

299

313

295

303

312

329

806

293

85.5

86.6

74.6

78.0

76.8

81.0

81.3

75.9

77.4

75.4

73.7

Year

Con- densed Sugar I

907

2.9

3.0

2.4

3.2

3

2.9

4.1

907

2.'

2.1

3.

2.'

3.

2.'

small during 

;hereafter.

that time. 

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