By surveying, carpentry, and day-labor of various other kinds in the village in the meanwhile, for I have as many trades as fingers, I had earned $13.34. The expense of food for eight months, namely, from July 4th to March 1st, the time when these estimates were made, though I lived there more than two years—not counting potatoes, a little green corn, and some peas, which I had raised, nor considering the value of what was on hand at the last date—was
Rice.................... $ 1.73-1/2
Molasses................. 1.73 Cheapest form of the
saccharine.
Rye meal................. 1.04-3/4
Indian meal.............. 0.99-3/4 Cheaper than rye.
Pork..................... 0.22
All experiments which failed:
Flour.................... 0.88 Costs more than Indian meal,
both money and
