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hundred storage houses throughout the country. In the 

 American Warehousemen's Association the cold storage section 

 comprises, I believe, about 48 including many of the larger 

 houses and some of the smaller ones. Of these 48, nearly all 

 — usually 45 or 46 — report their holdings to the Secretary 

 monthly and the aggregate is by him disseminated. 



For New York I have personally worked for a good many 

 years to secure monthly reports and after meeting at first with 

 opposition and more or less denial have of late years succeeded 

 in obtaining reports from all but one small house where very 

 little is stored. Boston houses have of late years reported their 

 holdings monthly to the Exchange there, but one of these has 

 now dropped out and declines to report. Philadelphia houses 

 report to individuals and the figures become known through 

 them. A few Chicago houses report in the same way, while 

 others do not, and the holdings there are given in my compila- 

 tions as partly estimated, the estimates being made by Chicago 

 men who keep track of the relative inward and outward 

 movement. 



My impression is that the warehouses reporting to the 

 American Warehousemen's Association carry approximately 

 40 per cent of the eggs and rather more than that of the butter, 

 stored in the United States ; but this is a guess. 



