Cost of living on Iowa farms

Abstract

<p>How much does it cost farm families to live? Does the farm family live more cheaply that the city family, inasmuch as a considerable proportion of the farm family’s food and fuel and all of the family’s shelter are furnished by the farm? Does the farm family enjoy as high a standard of living as the city family? What is the relative enjoyment each gets from its expenditures for the satisfaction of the higher human wants?</p> <p>These questions are often discussed, but usually with little or no actual first-hand information on which to base the discussions.</p>