Norwich bulletin., 1915-02-20

EEVSA d na0 ESS u1E 6AI NA6- side as well as an inside.
 The same department, as result of 8 similarly careful investigation, has now put out bulletin detailing What the Farm Contributes Directly to the Farmers Living"
 And those of us who are as willing to enjoy a comfort as we are to nurse a, grouch can find some interesting suggestions in 1t.
 To begin with, the city workingnan who gets better than S5S 8 month in wages and doesn't have to pay taxes. does have to pay rent. The average farm house is found to be worth about S1250. The rent for 8 similar house in any town would be at least $125. Do you happen to know any farmer who pays S125 taxes a year on a S1, 250 house?
 In most arguments about this mat ter the farm house is Jumped in with the whole farm as part of the investment, a method which assumes that the farmer is to have his lodging for nothing.
 In the next place, while the city Workingnan has to buy practically everything he consumes, as well as pay rent out of his yearly wages, the his subsistence from his own farm.
 The departments investigations coV- cred ten states: Vermont, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa. North Carolina, Georgia, Texas and Kansas.
 In these ten states it was found that the average value of the chief necessi- ties of life consumed on each farm whose income averaged S640 was $595. This seems 9 pretty perilousIy close margin for emergencies.
 But wait a bit.
 cf that $5e5 worth of necessities consumed on each farm, the farm it. se.f furnished $42l worth. Instead of having to spend he arm for the necessities of life s595 of his $64O in come, the average farmer had to spend off the farm only about STA.
 This average varied considerably in tho different states. In North Caro- S82 out of every $10U worth of food consumed. while in New York state the average farm furnished only $50 worth out of the hundred.
 This Is probably due to the fact that New York farmers eat more Dakota wheat and Florida grapefruit, while the North Carolinian is satisfied with hoUle- grown hog and hominy.
 Taking all ten states as an average however, it seems that the farmer s net income is-not the $45 year "4IALu represents IllS ulILEEGuCie DG- tween his gross Income of S640 and his consumption of $595, but S466, the difference between what his farm brings him in and what he has to spend off the farm.
 That's 8, rather different story.
 Bear in mind, too, that this $421 worth of necessities which the farm fu1 1niShes him would cost at least double that sum to any city working man. The city workingman would have to pay at least $S40 3 year. (Drobably more yetl, for the same housing, food, fuel light, etc, which the farmers farm supplies him. in ad- diion to his S540 income.
 Investigation has shown that the average city employee spends and has to spend a. quarter to a third of his entire wages for rent, alone. And even then he has to be content with tucked-up quarters, where everything is all the time in eVerybody's way. The average farmer, accustomed to a big house with an ample cellar and a huge garret for storage, would feel like suffocating in the ordinary city tenement. The average farm wife, accustomed to drawing at will on bins full of potatoes and apples and beets and onions and carrots, etc, on a full vinegar barrel: on a wOod-house packed full of dry, seasoned fuel: on daily replenished millz-pans and egg baskets, would feel half -pauperized if compelled to come down to the care