New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-01
Freshman at Cornell AgrlCuIt-
uraI College Lived Five
Months at That Rate.
HAS TO FORAGE A LITTLE
Professors Tell Him He Has
More than Enough to Sus-
tain Life-No Meat
or Eggs Eaten.
or Eggs Eaten.
by Telegraph to The Tr'@une~A"---

Ithaca. y. Y, Nov. 3o.-In order %
fight his own battle with the high cost
of living, Raymond Prior Sanford ot
Warwick. y. Y, a freshman twenty
one wears old. in the College OF Asil-
culture AT Cornell University, has now
almost completed his fifth month al
living on a minimum allowance oil -
cents week for the ordinary heces'
sities of life. While it has been MS
urinary object to reduce the cost OF MS
maintenance to the lowest amount, ne
has also considered the necessity 81
keeping his physical condition normal
so that his study would not suffer. 1t
is his claim. after having given MS
methods a thorough trial that ne -
quite as well physically as he was be
fore he renounced beef and mutton.
1.-TWO years ago" said Sanford, i
read of an undergraduate at Harvard
who. while working his way through
the university, lived on ~ a week.
When | came here this summer my
funds were small, and waiting on table
took 40 much time that / thought
would try TO see just how cheaply
fellow could live without giving up
ANYTHING essential to good health ana
comfort.
Il had no knowledge Of the relative
food values o' the cornmoner SUD
stances and little knowledge Of just
what l could do without. The hrst
week that / tried the experiment my
food cost me 81 80. had lived on but
ter. eggs and milk, with little vege-
table stuff added. That 81 % included
my gas bill.
THE second week | substituted pea
MT butter for regular butter, believing
that il contained all of the rat that
butter contained | cut out eggs-they
| were too expensive. I went out on the
lawns and dug dock and dandelions and
ate n T. for my green stuff. During the
last five' weeks of summer school my
| board bill was 81 25.
.'From october to October 2S ] had
chance 10 experiment liioic WIN Vi"
ferent foods, and their weekly cost
varied from so cents to 81. one week
1, was lust 80 cents In those twenty
eight days | gained three ana tWo-
thirds pounds in weight.
"Arv nresent diet consists of skinned
milk. which | buy at two cents a quart
buttermilk. three cents quart; stale
broad. three cents loaf; peanut but
for ten pounds for 81 90 Ordinarily 20
cents a Dound) raisins, three pounds
for % cents: lentils, 10 cents pound;
raw cabbages onions peppers, rice.
oatmeal and what apples ] can forage
from the agricultural farm. ] have
,necial permission. by the way, for that
foroeine. so am not subject to being
caught. So far nave eaten no meat
NOT because | do not like 1t, but because
il is too expensive.
II have consulted the professors oi
tho hone economies department of the
Agricultural College. and they tell me
IN. my diet contains all that is neces-
earv for sustenance and much more
Nv presAnt plans are To continue this
avnarimept until | leave college, gath
| erinc data as ! 80 along. Then IL may
he that some use to others may be de-
rived from it, Ny data so lar are com
nIate and accurate. and with the addi-
lion of data for three and one-half
years more the record might be valu-
able.