PROBLEM 119 



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Problem 119: What animal foods are cheapest in any 

 locality and why? (Home work.) 



Method and Observations. — a. Visit your local fish and meat 

 markets. If in New York, read the publications of the Mayor's 

 Food Supply Committee. Make tables of the fish and meats that 



are relatively cheap and those that are expensive. Go to the li- 

 brary and look up in an encyclopedia or Jordan and Evermann's 

 American Food and Game Fishes the habitat of each fish you have 

 priced. In Hornaday's American Natural History or an ency- 

 clopedia look up the habitat of the animals which supply the 

 meats you have priced. Read Kipling's Captains Courageous to 

 see how certain fish are 

 obtained. 



b. Using the figure, 

 locate the various cuts 

 of meat priced at the 

 market. You will find 

 that the cut of meat 

 (part of animal used) 

 determines the price, 

 and this price is further 

 determined by the de- 

 mand of people buying and the supply in the market. 



Conclusion. — 1. Does the habitat of the animal have any- 

 thing to do with its price in the market ? 



2. What other factors might influence the price of fish? Ask 

 your teacher to help you in this. 



3. What factors might determine the price of meat? 



4. What factors largely determine the price of cuts of meat? 



