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ager, but is limited to the other types of stores where the owner 
regularly acts as manager. (See Table 12.) 
Table 12. — Male population 21 years of age and over and retail meat dealers, 
by race and nativity 
[8 completely canvassed large cities, 7 completely canvassed small cities, and 8 completely canvassed 
counties, including 10 urban districts.] 1 
A. Male Population 21 
Years of 
Age and 
Over, Census of 
1920 
Group 
Total eight large 
cities 
Total seven small 
cities 
Total eight counties 
Number 
Per cent 
Number 
Per cent 
Number 
Per cent 
729, 218 
459, 642 
212, 795 
39, 305 
22, 429 
21, 566 
21,440 
21, 263 
15,295 
9,208 
5,832 
1,010 
55,447 
46, 708 
10, 073 
100.00 
63.03 
29.18 
5.39 
3.08 
2.96 
2.94 
82, 772 
58,743 
11, 125 
100.00 
70.97 
13.44 
131, 732 
98,201 
22,705 
100.00 
Native white .- 
74.55 
Foreign-born white . 
17.24 
Italv 
2.92 
Poland 
2.10 
1.26 
.80 
.14 
7.60 
6.41 
1.38 
Austria,. . .. , . 
All other countries _ . . - . ... 
12, 674 
230 
15.31 
.28 
10, 746 I 8. 16 
80 1 06 
B. Retail Meat Dealers 
, 1920 
Total reporting .. . ._ 
2,251 
1,074 
1,138 
54 
156 
209 
32 
338 
99 
50 
27 
173 
30 
9 
276 
100.00 
47.71 
50.56 
2.40 
6.93 
9.28 
1.42 
15.01 
4.40 
2.22 
1.20 
7.69 
1.33 
.40 
403 
306 
78 
19 
17 
3 
3 
100.00 
75.93 
19.35 
4.71 
4.22 
.74 
.74 
404 
302 
96 
3 
12 
9 
5 
30 
8 
100.00 
74.75 
23.76 
England, Scotland, Ireland 
.74 
2.97 
Italv . -. .- .. 
2.23 
Norway, Sweden, Denmark.^--. 
1.24 
7.43 
6 
1.49 
1.98 
Syria ..- . .. 
17 
13 
19 
4.22 
3.23 
4.71 
1 
28 
6 
.25 
All other countries 
6.93 
!Negro 
1.49 
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1 The 8 large cities are Lowell, Mass., Hartford, Conn., Pittsburgh, Pa., St. Paul, Minn., Des Moines, 
Iowa, Birmingham, Ala., Portland, Oreg., and Los Angeles, Calif. 
The 7 small cities are Terre Haute, Ind., Grand Forks, N. Dak., Butte, Mont., Springfield, Mo., Lynch- 
burg, Va., Raleigh, N. C, and Winston-Salem, N. C. 
The 8 counties are Merrimack, N. H., Broome, N. Y., Eau Claire, Wis., Lancaster, Nebr., Marion, 
Kans., Warren, Ky., Richland, S. C, and Ramsey, N. Dak. 
Negroes engage in the meat trade in extremely small numbers in 
comparison with their total numbers in the population. In several 
of the northern cities no negro dealers were found. In Pittsburgh 
three dealers on a small scale were found, this being 0.53 per cent of 
the number reporting their nationality, whereas the negro element 
in the male population over 21 years of age was 7.79 per cent. In 
Winston- Salem. X. C, and Birmingham, Ala,, negroes were found 
to be 12 per cent and 7 per cent, respectively, of the numbers of meat 
dealers, while their numbers in the adult male population were 44 
per cent and 40 per cent, respectively. In Terre Haute the largest 
comparative number was found, the seven dealers there constituting 
5 per cent of the total number of stores selling fresh meat in the city, 
while negroes constituted 6 per cent of the adult male population. 
The total sales of meats of these seven stores, however, were esti- 
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