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We could have lived just as happily on half that sum, we could have lived just as wretchedly on ten times that sum. BUTTER is the biggest expense-item of all. Of our nine hundred and twenty-six dollars and thirty-two cents, ninety-one dollars and twenty-six cents went for butter. Remember that your butter is one-tenth part of the whole. Next comes flour.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864