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100 apples, but I conjecture that if there were statistics available for the other fruits they would show increase.

Among the things that I have classed as luxuries, coffee, cocoa and tobacco were in greatly increased supply and use, while of tea we did not consume so much.

Of the fibers, which constitute our main clothing material, we had much less cotton in 1920-22 than in 1912-14. The amount available for clothing was even more curtailed than the quotients indicate, for in the later period a greatly increased proportion of this fiber was being taken for the manufacture of automobile tires. Our use of wool increased about 20 per cent while that of silk was 50 per cent greater. It may be remarked incidentally that during this period there was a great expansion in the domestic manufacture and use of artificial silk.

Of hides and skins, the source of our leather, we did not have so much in 1920-22 as in 1912-14.

Speaking generally, we appear to have used less of the rough foods, such as wheat and potatoes, a little more of meat, and a good deal more of the highly palatable things like poultry and dairy products and sugar. So also as to the luxuries. We may discern the same thing in the clothing material, whereof we used more wool and silk and less cotton. These disclosures may be a reflection of the greater returns to wage earners, enabling them to buy more costly food and better clothing. However, the statistics of the consumption of these commodities can hardly be regarded as evincing any great improvement in the scale of living even in the matters of food and clothing.

In the list of miscellaneous commodities there have been changes which generally are easily explainable.