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Show FAMILY'S LIVING COJiiTLD IN r ?:COM FROM THE FAiiTI . The cash income from the form is not the only item to be t:.ken into account in figuring the farmers' income, as they get material assistance in the way of food products for the family, houses and in some instances fuel. According to the department of agriculture, data collected from several thousand farms shows that the vjlue of the family living at f jrm prices approximates one-third of the cost of. the living of farm families, and t o-ihirus of the cost of food, fuel and house rent. it averages one-ninth of the farm receipts and one-third of the faim income. The figures, as the department points out, vary with the different dif-ferent localities and the different years, and with the different families, too. Six and seven years ago, when the farmer was considered con-sidered very prosperous, the value of the family living on the farm was only about a fifth as much ts the farm income. 3ut afier dcifation and depression came, two or three years later the value . . of the family living on the farm was one-third of the income. j The department points out further, however, that the value; of this living does not come to the farmer freely without effort and free of cost. The direct money coLt for some of the items enumer- ited is not great, but represents labor, capital and sometimes cash, outlay for materials. j But much of the capital employed in raising the food items for' he family is necessary for farm business and the materials used in; Lheir production are sometimes by-products or wastes from the! living. Much of the labor in producing the family living ig done xt odd moments, or by the children. ( The value of the house rent on the farm includes interest, de-j oreciation on the house and cash costs of insurance, taxes and repairs |