Show home raising of foods Is good farm practice home production ol of dairy and poultry products fruits vegetables and meat from animals fed and butchered on the farm arm offers a two way advantage to families with low cash incomes the new department of agriculture yearbook points out home grown foods usually Im improto provo the diet both in quality and quantity and they release for other purposes money that would otherwise be paid out for foi food in a recent survey of living costs on firms arms food economists of the united states department of agriculture tur e were able to group 84 families each of which had about abear a year to spend for the family living and each consisting 0 of f a husband and wife and one ch child ild under 16 years of age on the basis of how much food wai was produced on the farm money expenditures tor for food dropped steadily as ho home me production increased some of these families produced more than worth of food on the farm and spent only about tor for food at the other end part of the families r raised a ased only about worth of food and bought about worth the economists estimate that such a family would sp spend end about cash if it did not raise any food families producing the highest money values in food were in general the best fed |