| - | -
| | | | |
{A | 15 |324 | 6 | - |20
Mothers {B | 82 |220 |23 | - |41
{C | - | - | - | - | -
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It will be seen that men only were ill! [See next page.]

For average of hours worked elsewhere, see page 232 and page 237.

FARMERS' EARNINGS AND SPENDINGS [XIII]. If the reader should feel that
the following details are lacking in comprehensiveness or
definiteness, he should understand that reports of a national and
authoritative character on the economic condition of the farmer were
not available. There existed certain reports of the Ministry of
Agriculture, but they were subjected to criticism. The National
Agricultural Association had set on foot an elaborate enquiry as to
the condition of the "middle farmer," but it was suggested that too
much reliance was placed on arithmetical calculations and too little
on known facts. I have had to rely, therefore, on official and private
investigations made in various prefectures and villages, and I give a
selection for what they are worth. Of the general condition of the
agricultural population the reader is offered the impressions recorded
in my different Chapters.

INCOMES AND EXPENDITURES OF PEASANT PROPRIETORS.--

The incomes and expenditures of the three households referred to in
Appendix XII were:

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|Income |Expenditure |Balance in hand
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|yen |yen |yen
A |477 |449 |28
B |915 |838 |77
C |971 |703 |68
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HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURES.--The household expenditures of the three
families were, in yen:

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|A |B |C
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|yen |yen |yen
Food |192.76 |216.64 |189.57
House | 2.32 | 2.24 | 1.20
Clothes | 18.72 | 15.16 | 10.08
Fuel | 12.72 | 13.53 | 21.00
Tools and furniture | 10.97 |160.18 | 1.66
Social intercourse | 9.58 | -- | 6.05
Education | 1.56 | -- | 4.15
Amusement | 3.30 | 2.03 | 18.00
Unforeseen | 7.85 | 13.72 | 22.33
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