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Show ern States, and one-third of those in the South, generally in the kitchen kit-chen or basement. Farm Folks Are Much Alike Report Indicates More than half the farm families fam-ilies in all sections of the country except the Northeast prefer a one-story one-story house with a basement and two porches. This preference is made clear in a report based on rural housing surveys just issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Agri-culture. In general, American farm families are more alike than different dif-ferent in the kind of home they want. The report compiles results from the Northeastern, Southern, North Central, and Western areas of the nation surveyed by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Econ-omics in Cooperation with "34 State agricultural experiment stations. sta-tions. Homemakers of about 4,000 farm operator families in 42 states weer interviewed about household activities and housing preferences. The statistics show which housing features are likely to suit farm families best. In all regions most families who prefer a house more than one story high want a bathroom and at least one bedroom on the first floor. Bedrooms also rank as first choice in rooms to be added when and if expansion of present quarters can be started. A separate dining room, plus eating space in the kitchen, is almost universally desired. Seating Seat-ing space for more than the number num-ber in the family at tables in both dining room and kitchen is wanted since half of the families in the Northeast, South, and West serve extra people at family meals as often as once a week. It was found that more than 90 percent of the farm women preserve pre-serve food for family use, most of them preferring to do this in the kitchen. However, almost 60 percent per-cent of Southern women would rather use a porch for part of the work. . The fact that at least 90 percent per-cent of the farm families interviewed inter-viewed do all or most of the family fam-ily washing at home emphasized the need for laundry space. Most of the women like a basement area or work room for this, although one-third of the Southern women favor an outside building. And, except in the South, the kitchen is the preferred place for ironing, especially in the winter. Sewing is an activity in which over three-fourths of farm women engage. A separate room for sewing sew-ing is on the desired list for about half of the oNrth Central, Northeastern, North-eastern, and Western women who sew. However, almost half of the Southern farm women would rathn er use a bedroom as a sewing and mending room. Farm products are prepared for market in the houses of about one-half one-half of the families in the Northeastern, North-eastern, North Central and West- |