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Table 38. 
■Replies to the question: When you purchase meat, is your mind made up to 
buy boiling meat, roast, fry, etc., before you go to the store? 
Group 
Total 
number 
of 
replies 
Percentage replying— 
Yes 
Partly 
No 
American white: 
735 
774 
785 
575 
70.7 
71.6 
78.0 
81.1 
12.0 
16.9 
13.0 
8.5 
17.3 
11.5 
Well-to-do class 
9.0 
Wealthy class i 
10.4 
2,869 
75.0 
12.9 
12.1 
Colored: 
Poor class 
203 
197 
96 
45 
50 
171 
264 
109 
194 
50 
150 
53.7 
58.4 
70.8 
71.1 
56.0 
73.7 
49.3 
38.5 
76.8 
76.0 
77.3 
18.7 
20.3 
15.6 
11.1 
20.0 
14.0 
14.4 
32.1 
8.8 
14.0 
14.0 
27.6 
Middle class 
21.3 
Foreign: 
English 
13.6 
Finnish 
17.8 
French 
24.0 
German _ 
12.3 
Italian , 
36.3 
29.4 
Polish 
14.4 
10.0 
8.7 
1 Replies from 13 cities; Baltimore, Jacksonville, and New Haven not included. 
Table 39. — Replies by cities to the question: When you purchase meat, is your 
mind made up to buy boiling meat, roast, fry, etc., before you go to the store? 
[Middle class and well-to-do class American white replies combined] 
City 
Total 
number 
of replies 
Percentage replying— 
Yes 
Partly 
No 
Baltimore 
94 
89 
100 
97 
92 
101 
99 
100 
100 
103 
100 
100 
93 
92 
100 
99 
74.5 
60.7 
82.0 
63.9 
83.6 
81.2 
85.8 
86.0 
70.0 
75.7 
59.0 
82.0 
63.5 
60.9 
72.0 
93.0 
■11.7 
19.1 
8.0 
28.9 
12.0 
15.8 
5.1 
11.0 
17.0 
5.8 
25.0 
7.0 
27.9 
31.5 
13.0 
3.0 
13.8 
Binghamton 
20.2 
10.0 
7.2 
Fargo 
4.4 
3.0 
9.1 
Lincoln ,_ 
3.0 
13.0 
18.5 
New Orleans 
16.0 
Oklahoma City 
11.0 
Philadelphia 
8.6 
Pittsburgh 
7.6 
San Francisco 
15.0 
Washington , . _ 
4.0 
All cities . 
1,559 
74.8 
14.9 
10.3 
