During the Great Depression, the CCC offered young men strong incentives to enroll, including a clean uniform, food, thirty dollars a month in pay, with twenty-five dollars sent home to their families and five dollars kept as spending money, while clothes and meals were provided free. Supporting two hundred men required large purchases of supplies, and towns such as Girard and Farlington benefited by selling fruit and vegetables for the mess hall, oats and hay for mule teams, and fuel, tires, and spare parts for equipment. Local families also earned extra money by providing services such as shoe repair and washing and mending clothes. By the end of 1934, revenue generated from the CCC had returned seventy-two million dollars to the nation’s devastated economy.