Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-09-03
WHERE FOOD SURVEY
is BEING TAKEN
Families and Cities in Which the Sup
DIV Of Provisions in Retail stores
win he Determined.


city and rural portions of forty-tnree
connties in>yarious parts of the eoun-
try were inventoried on August |
q by detailed and personally SUI
nersised survey. conducted by the
Trnited States Department of Agricul-
t,,re estimates from these figures
viii make il possible to approximate
the quantity of all of the food on hand
in snch establishments in the country
To get this result the counties nave
been selected with great care, lnciuo-
inc some as presenting conditions
which will reflect varied types OF lie
and industry. The survey of retali
stocks is only one of the four now I'M
der way. the other three being the
stocks on farms. in wholesale COM
mercial establishments and storages,
and in the homes of the consumers.
Aside from the cities and counties IN
which the detailed work will be done,
the survey of retail stocks of food VIII
be handled by schedules through the
mails.
The actual work of making the sur
vevs will be directed by the Bureau
Of Markets of the Department, assist
ad locally bv the agents of the Bureau
of Chemistry and of the States Rela-
lions Service. Other local agencies,
such as boards of trade, chambers OF
commerce. retail groeers' assocla-
tons farm-bureau agents, and other
state county. and city officials have
assured the Department of their as
sistance. The blanks for detailed re-
nortine of stocks on hand are distrib-
uted locally in cities by local health
and police officials under the dlrec-
tion of the Bureau of Chemistry and
in rural communities by county agents
and patriotic organizations under the
general direction of the States Rela-
tons Service.
Counties Selected.
Aside from New York, where an in
yentory will be made. the largest city
selected as a part of the basis of es-
timating is Cleveland, Ohio. Its coun-
~ Cyahoga. was selected because
cleveland is centrally located with
reference to large industrial centers
and may be considered as a typical
manufacturing and commercial cen
ter. A detailed survey of New York
City will be made as separate prob
lem. but owing TO its large size 1t can
not be used as a part of the basis for
estimating for the entire country,
since it would completely overshadow
the total of all the other selected dis
tricts combined
The second group of counties IN
cludes the cities of Syracuse, N. y;
Dallas. Tex; and Altoona, Pa. with its
outlying towns OF Tyrone and Juniata.
These three are thought to represent
conditions as they exist in a city
which depends on manufacturing, one
which has a big agricultural back
country. and one which depends on
the mining industry.
The grouping, as whole is in ac-
cordance with population. The first
group, represented by Cleveland
(Cuyahoga Coz is for metropolitan
districts with population of 100000
or more. The second group includes
counties with cities OF population
| of $4,000 to 100000. The third group
takes counties with cities $4,000 to
| $4,000; fourth, from 10000 to $4,000;
and so on down to $500, and then GER
| tain counties having no city or village
of $500 population.
Other Group Divisions.
In the third group Of counties are
the cities of ontgomery, Ala; Topeka,
Kan; Binghamton, N. Y; and Sacra-
mento, Cal
The fourth group includes Con-
cord, n H.; Butler, Pa; Jackson
Tenn. Iowa City, Ia, and Walla
| Walla, Wash.
) Group five has five cities with their
outlying county population. They
are: Oneonta, N. Y; Americas, Ga;
DeKalb, Ill; Bowling Green, KY, and
Provo, Utah.
Group six includes ten counties
with cities of rom $500 to 5000 and
the index cities are: Springfield, Vt;
Stroudsburg, Pa; South Boston, Va;
Allegan, Mich; Lake Geneva. Wis;
Mcpherson, Kan; Marshall, Mo-; Can
ton, Miss; Saltwater Okla, and
11dISiluSlUs OIe.
The final group, in counties having
no towns as large as $500 population,
includes 10 towns, as follows. Eaton
ton, Ga; Carthage, N. c.; seaford.
Del; Fosedale, Ind; Pembina, N D.;
Marysville, Kan; Hartford, Ky;
Lawrenceburg, Tenn; Enterprise,
Ala; Fairhope, Ala; Rector, Ark;
Mansfield, La; La Grange, Tex
Castle Rock, Colo, and Raymond.
Wash.
Why the Places We're Chosen.
These places have been selected be-
cause of the impossibility of making
complete inventory Of the stocks of
the smaller retail concerns through
out the country. This careful and de-
tailed survey of the retail stocks in
the representative cities and rural
districts, together with results OBJ
tanned from schedules that are mailed
out, forms the basis on which the re-
tail stocks of the whole country will
be estimated.
It is known, of course, just what
is the actual population of each of the
seven groups represented by the forty
three counties, and just what proper
ton their population bears to the
group and to the country as a whole.
Tu1oa Cue.eL uu~t