In the table and the transcript of a store a will be found the detailed expenditures for me eight Bulgarians, for thirteen weeks (July 22 to The store account is a transcript and translation by a Bulgarian meat and grocery store in Hungary the men bought exclusively. The table shows (1) the total amount purchased each week, and ( spent per day and per week for certain comm noted that the expenditures for meat and groceri from $3.12 to $6.64, the general average for the being $5.11. The average Bulgarian eats one 3-] per day, costing 12 cents. Consequently, the ai men would be $7.62 per week for bread, which age of $5.11 would make a total weekly exper $11.83. The average food expense of each me therefore, would be $1.48 per man per week, or $ four weeks. This, of course, represents only g bread. To it must be added expenditures for m with meals, and incidental purchases. It gives ever, as to the cost of living, and goes to substant received from the people themselves that it cost $10 per month for food. TABLE 622.—Weekly and daily expenditures for meat and g Bulgarians in Community E, by articles -Weekly and daily expenditures for meat and groceries of a group of 8 Bulgarians in Community E, by articles-Continued. Table 622.-Weekly and daily expenditures for meat and gr Bulgarians in Community E, by articles-Con The following itemized statement, upon which th based, is a transcript of a store account, covering 22 to October 22, 1907, and will show in more deta character of the daily purchases of the Bulgarians group system. It is apparent from the frequency v and similar items appear that the men were buyin could be readily cooked or which were practical sumption. They did this to save the trouble detailed statement follows: Transcript of a grocery and meat account of a group of 8 Bulgari 22, 1907 (bread bought elsewhere). |