Lyle,
Sorry to hear your stumpped, my guess would be early on, bartter and trading
were means of suppling your wants. So many farms were that way. But I know
my father saying that as a boy, if got a nickle you could buy enought candy
to last all week. He lived on a farm in George, Seldom did they really need
money guess it might have worked here the same.
I have seen prices to food stuff, and gains but not any compiled list as
such, But I look around and see what I can find for you...

yours Lyn Lanier
On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Lyle E. Browning <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> I'm working on a set of sites dating from the Reconstruction Era to the
> early electricity period (1865-1940) in tobacco country. The literature on
> the subject refers to average incomes per year in various places but never
> mentions the costs of basics, staples and/or farm machinery. Could someone
> point me in the direction of compiled information that has staple prices and
> income figures (cost of a loaf of bread, pound of butter, average yearly
> income, etc.) for that time period? Also, has anyone compiled farm equipment
> prices for that time period on a yearly or decade basis?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Lyle Browning, RPA
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