Lyn,
Thanks for your response. Do you know that you're the only person who's responded who recognized I was asking for a compiled list? EVERY other one pointed me to the usual sources for it. The problem is that it could take years to get there the hard way. I wonder if there are stats and econ lists that might have folks who have done that?
Lyle
On Jul 31, 2010, at 3:52 PM, Lyn Lanier wrote:
> 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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