New-York tribune., 1918-03-17

is no getting away from the repetition Of cream
and vegetables. The COW and the garden are
the providers.
Our dinners may be PURGE of peas with whole
wheat crackers, baked potatoes, omelette with
jelly, tomato aspic salad, custard and cocoa;
or a black bean soup, baked potatoes, scalloped
tomatoes, corn frtters, whole wheat bread and
butter, apple pudding and hard sauce.
THE ss2 GROCERY LIST
During the year we have been away from
home perhaps q month. While at home we
have guests coming and going, especially in
the summer.
The grocery list representing the supnlies
bought for the year with the exception Of the
chickens and eggs received in return for milk
and butter) was made up chiefly Of these items:
One hundred and twenty-seven pounds of
sugar, six quarts Of molasses a gallon of maple
syrup, twenty-three and one-half pounds OF
prunes and raisins, only sixteen cans of SOUP
and fish, 116 pounds of whole wheat in the
berry, twenty pounds Of corn for grinding.
nine pounds Of rye -four and only five of white:
of Coffee cocoa and tea only seven pounds were
purchased.
We plead guilty also to thirty-one boxes Of
crackers, two and one-half boxes of oatmeal.
four boxes of shredded wheat, eleven pounds of
homlny, seventeen of brown rice and four of
white rice. Seven dozen of oranges and lemons
and almost eighteen dozen bananas covered
the fruit bill.
Besides these there were small miscellaneous
amounts Of salt, baking powder, soda, peanut
butter, cream of tartar, spices, etc. With this
So2 expenditure for groceries the COWS and
fho o~Io lo.l foI
US see what the cost US that me NAV not
be accused Of merely transferring expenses
from one account to the other, instead of actu-
ally saving anything by this method Of life.
HOW THE COWS PAID THE BILLS
We set aside six acres and kept two cows
In that way there is always a milking COW.
After the first COW is purchased another never
need be; so get a good to start with and
raise calf when you want one
From the two cows we have each year $4,000
pounds Of milk, or 1000 quarts. Milk is worth
IN our town IL cents q quart. Therefore we
have the equivalent Of s770. From this sum
we must deduct $50 for their food, leaving US
$71O worth of milk to be spent for food il
necessary.
The items were proportioned in this way:
$4,000 quarts Of milk (ncluding butter cream
and cheese), 1915; value Of milk "swapped"
for eggs, s85; value of milk bartered for
chickens, $50; the meat purchased from sale
of milk, $50; groceries purchased, $62.o3; to-
tai expense for food, s517O3
We therefore have paid the table expense
with the milk and have $192.97 to apply tow
ard the wages Of the man on the place. If we
counted into this expense item the value of
vegetables and fruit raised on the place fot
our table the. sum would reach figure that
would look natural even to city dwellcr. but
this market value would not be the cost 20
the farmer by any means.
This is not dairy proposition This is a
working proposition for one man with from
four to seven acres of land, time to give to it.
and the unpaid labor of one woman to add
thereto. 1t is not way to get rich 1t is a
way to be independent, we'll and happy at
minimum expense to yourself and your country.