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Table 50. — Replies to the question: When you purchase meat, do you buy by pound 
or portion? 1 
Group 
Total 
number 
of 
replies 
Percentage 
replying— 
Pound 
Portion 
American white: 
183 
184 
199 
92.3 
83.7 
73.9 
7.7 
Middle class _. ._..! __ 
16.3 
Well-to-do class . ... .. _._ ... 
26. 1 
Total American white 
566 
83.0 
17.0 
Colored: * 
53 
47 
99 
96 
88.7 
91.5 
91.9 
94.8 
11.3 
8. 5 
Foreign: 
8. 1 
Polish ... ... 
5.2 
1 Replies from Baltimore, Binghamton, Jacksonville, and New Haven. 
2 Replies from Jacksonville only. 
Table 51. — Replies by cities to the question: When you purchase meat, do you buy 
by pound or portion? 
[Middle class and well-to-do class American white replies combined] 
City 
Total 
number 
of 
replies 
Percentage 
replying— 
Pound 
Portion 
94 
88 
98 
103 
77.4 
70.5 
84.8 
81.6 
22.6 
29.5 
15.2 
19.4 
383 
78.5 
21.5 
Table 52. — Replies to the question: Name the kinds of beefsteaks and beef roasts 
you can recognize if cut 
Beef steaks 
Beef roasts 
Group 
Total 
number 
of 
replies 
Average 
number 
recog- 
nized per 
person 
Total 
number 
of 
replies 
Average 
number 
recog- 
nized per 
person 
American white: 
681 
769 
780 
557 
2.4 
3.0 
3.5 
3.4 
665 
754 
770 
429 
1.5 
2,1 
2.5 
3.3 
Total American white 
2,787 
3.1 
2,618 
2.3 
Colored: 
194 
194 
57 
45 
44 
150 
221 
59 
142 
50 
150 
2.0 
2.6 
3.9 
3.1 
3.4 
3.8 
2.1 
2.6 
2.0 
2.5 
2.7 
182 
191 
66 
45 
33 
149 
223 
59 
145 
50 
150 
0.9 
1.3 
Foreign: 
3.4 
2.5 
2.2 
2.9 
1.2 
2.1 
Polish 
1.4 
1.9 
2.8 
Replies from 13 cities; Baltimore, Jacksonville, and New Haven not included. 
