TRANSPORTATION AND STORAGE FACILITIES 605 



tion is received to justify prosecution, this Department will go into 

 court and insist on the full penalty of the law in every case in which 

 a conviction has been secured. 1 



JOHN J. DILLON, Commissioner 

 New York State Department of Foods and Markets 



190. THE LENGTH OF TIME FOR WHICH GOODS ARE STORED 3 

 BY GEORGE K. HOLMES 



The movement into and out of storage of the six commodities 

 covered by this investigation can well be compared in Diagram A. 

 For instance, at the end of the diagram, in the section for eggs, the 

 continuous line representing receipts shows at a glance that the bulk 

 of the year's receipts go into cold storage in April, May, and June, 

 during which time the deliveries, represented by the broken line, are 

 almost nothing. The situation is reversed from October to January, 

 when the receipts into cold storage are exceedingly small and nearly 

 the entire deliveries of the year are made. 



The equalizing of consumption throughout the year by taking into 

 cold storage a portion of the supplies during the season of high pro- 

 duction and distributing it for consumption during the period of low 

 production is here illustrated. In the case of fresh beef, for instance, 

 receipts into cold storage are heavy in September and October, while, 

 as indicated by the broken line, the deliveries out of cold storage 

 present only an undulating line, in a nearly horizontal position, 

 throughout the year. The even distribution of cold-storage beef 

 throughout the year is evident at a glance. The same observation 

 holds true with regard to the distribution of fresh pork and quite so 

 with regard to butter. 



In the consumption of cold-storage dressed poultry, it should be 

 remembered that the demands of Thanksgiving and Christmas are 

 sufficient to cause an enormous increase. 



The marked increase in the consumption of cold-storage eggs in 

 the winter is compensatory to the marked decline of egg production 



1 In a later bulletin the commissioner says that after the publication of the 

 above "many houses in the trade, wholesale, jobbing, and retail, as well as the 

 trade press, have expressed a desire for the enforcement of the law and com- 

 mended the determination of the Department to enforce the sale of cold-storage 

 eggs as such." 



3 Adapted from " Cold Storage Business Features," Bulletin 93, Bureau of 

 Statistics, United States Department of Agriculture, pp. 28-45. 



