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Rappahannock County’s total food bill last year, according to the annual survey by the; Standard Rate and Data Ser-i vice, came to $816,000.
Apportioned equally among the local population, this was * equivalent to $53 per month per family. The same amount of food, of like quality, would have cost only $49 per month two years previously. As examples of the average price changes that have taken place in the last two years, the Department of Labor lists bread at 23 cents for a onepound loaf, as compared with 20.8 cents formerly, hamburger meat at 54.7 cents a pound instead of 50.6 cents and milk at 51.4 cents per half gallon as against 47.7 cents in 1964. ► And, as for the near future, more price rises may be expected, according to the Department of Agriculture. It forecasts, however, that next year’s increase will not be as great as this year’s. Despite the higher prices, people seem to be consuming food at a great rate. The Agriculture Department ' conducted 9 study* recently
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