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Table 44. — Replies to the question: When you purchase meat, are you influenced by 
salesmen ? 
Total 
number 
of 
replies 
Percentage replying— 
Group 
No 
Yes 
Some- 
times 
American white: 
741 
772 
781 
576 
2,870 
72.1 
75.9 
72.1 
75. 3 
21.0 
14.0 
16.6 
12.8 
6.9 
10.1 
11.3 
11.9 
73.8 
16.3 
9.9 
Colored: 
203 
197 
94 
45 
50 
172 
261 
111 
188 
50 
149 
81.8 
79.2 
81.9 
88.9 
70.0 
81.4 
69.0 
86.5 
87.3 
82.0 
72.5 
8.0 
13.7 
3.2 
8.9 
20.0 
8.1 
21.1 
7.2 
10.1 
12.0 
12.7 
10.2 
7.1 
Foreign: 
English . ... ._ . 
14.9 
Finnish. . ... 
2.2 
French - _ _. . 
10.0 
German .. .. _ 
10.5 
9.9 
Jewish ._ . . __ . 
6.3 
Polish , 
2.6 
6.0 
Scandinavian ._ ._. _ 
14.8 
Replies from 13 cities; Baltimore, Jacksonville, and New Haven not included. 
Table 45. — Replies by cities to the question: When you purchase meat, are you 
influenced by salesmen f 
[Middle class and well-to-do class American white replies combined] 
Total 
number 
of 
replies 
Percentage replying— 
City 
No 
Yes 
Some- 
times 
Baltimore _ ._ '■_ 
91 
87 
100 
97 
92 
101 
98 
100 
99 
103 
100 
100 
92 
95 
100 
98 
87.9 
75.9 
76.0 
70.0 
42.4 
83.2 
87.8 
76.0 
78.8 
83.5 
61.0 
71.0 
78.3 
71.6 
75.0 
64.3 
8.8 
10.3 
15.0 
16.5 
33.7 
8.9 
10.2 
16.0 
14.1 
10.7 
22.0 
19.0 
5 4 
3 3 
Binghamton . i. 
13 8 
Birmingham ...... . 
9 
Denver ._ ..... ....... 
13 5 
Fargo ... . _ . 
23 9 
Grand Forks . 
7 9 
Jacksonville . 
2 
Lincoln ...._....... 
8.0 
7 1 
Minneapolis . . 
New Haven . .. ... . . 
5 8 
New Orleans . .. 
17.0 
Oklahoma City. ... ..... ..... 
10 
Philadelphia. .. . 
ifi i 
Pittsburgh 
&4 20.0 
11.0 1 ■ 14.0 
34 7 ' 10 
San Francisco ... ... . 
Washington . . . 
All cities 
1, 553 
74.0 
15.3 
10.7 
