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beef, while 55.3 per cent of the American white poor-class housewives 
indicated beef as the first choice of their households. 
Among the various foreign groups some important variations from 
the preferences found in the American white group were noted. The 
Finnish, Russian, and Scandinavian groups showed important pref- 
erences for pork. Twenty-four and four-tenths per cent of the total 
replies in the group of Finns, 28 per cent of the Russians, and 37.8 
per cent of the Scandinavians indicated preference for pork. 
The preference for veal was notably greater in some of the foreign 
groups than in the American white or colored groups. Finns indi- 
cated a preference for veal of 24.5 per cent of the total replies, French 
42 per cent, Italians 43.5 per cent, and Russians 20 per cent. 
The figures shown in Table 7 are the combined total of replies of 
housewives of the middle and well-to-do classes of the American white 
group. The replies of these two subdivisions of the American white 
group were selected as the most representative portion of the data 
secured from each city and were used to indicate differences among 
the various cities. Replies representative of 12 cities are thus shown 
in Table 7. 
Of the 1,155 replies for the 12 cities, 69.5 per cent indicated beef 
as first choice. Pork was second with 13.2 per cent. Preferences 
for lamb averaged 9.8 per cent and for veal 7.5 per cent of the total 
replies. Variations from these averages were marked; that is, of the 
replies from Denver, 84.2 per cent showed beef as first choice, while 
only 45 of the 100 housewives of New Orleans replying to the ques- 
tion stated that beef was preferred in their households. 
Preferences for pork as indicated by the replies also varied widely. 
In Grand Forks, 28.3 per cent of the housewives gave pork as the 
preferred meat in their households. In Oklahoma City, the corre- 
sponding percentage was 21.3, in Fargo, 20.2. Pork was preferred 
least in the households of San Francisco, where only 4.1 per cent of 
the 97 housewives stated that pork was preferred. 
In San Francisco and Philadelphia households, lamb was preferred 
to a larger extent than in the remaining 10 cities. Thirty-three per 
cent of the 97 housewives in San Francisco gave lamb as the pre- 
ferred meat in their households while 25 per cent of the 92 replies 
from Philadelphia indicated lamb as first choice. 
Veal was preferred by the members of 45 per cent of the house- 
holds in New Orleans, which was the outstanding city in its prefer- 
ence for veal. The next highest indicated preference was in Fargo 
where 8.5 per cent of the housewives stated that veal was preferred 
,in their households. 
The data presented in Table 8 were to a large extent corrobora- 
tive of the replies previously shown in Table 6. In Table 8 prefer- 
ences are expressed for the individual members of the households. 
At the outset of the survey the question relating to preference for 
beef, pork, lamb, or veal was asked regarding each member of the 
household. It is these replies from Baltimore, Binghamton, Jack- 
sonville, and New Haven which are presented in Table 8. These 
replies were found to be to a very marked degree in agreement with 
those determined for 12 cities in which the household was used as 
the unit of preference rather than the preferences of the individual 
members of the households. 
