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BULLETIN lOd, U. S, DEPAETMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Copies were also sent to a selected list of trade papers and other 

 publications. 



As the ■^ork was extended to include other commodities, every 

 effort was made to let the public know that the reports were available, 

 free of cost, to anyone requesting them. Copies were sent to all deal- 

 ers in these commodities in towns with a population of 25,000 or 

 more and to a large list of producers. With the exception of the cold- 

 storage warehouses, newspapers, trade publications, and certain Gov- 

 ernment otficials, no reports are sent except upon request. 



Approximately 75,000 copies of the reports for December, 1917, 

 were mimeographed and mailed. Table 1 shows how they wea^e 

 distributed. 



Table 1. — Distribution of the storage reports of the Bureau of Markets on 



Dec. 1, 1917. 



Commodities. 



News- 

 papers. 



Apples 



Creamery butter _ . 



American cheese 



Case eggs 



Frozen eggs 



Frozen and cured meats 



Frozen poultry 



Packing-stock butter . . . 

 Frozen and cured fish . . 



Total 



3,500 

 3,500 

 3,500 

 3,500 

 3,500 

 3,500 

 3,500 

 3,500 

 3,500 



31,500 



Storages. 



1,444 

 1,444 

 1,444 

 1,444 

 1,444 

 1,444 

 1,444 

 1, 444 

 1, 444 



12, 996 



Govern- 

 ment 

 ofQ.cials. 



600 

 600 

 600 

 600 

 600 

 600 

 600 

 600 

 600 



5,400 



Byrequest. 



3, 101 

 3,485 

 2,707 

 3,832 

 3, 832 

 2,262 

 1,705 

 3,485 

 18 



24,72 



Total. 



8,945 

 9,029 

 8,251 

 9,376 

 9,376 

 7,806 

 7,249 

 9,029 

 5,562 



r 1,023 



REVIEW OF THE 1916-17 STORAGE SEASON FOR APPLES. 



This season's reports began with a tabulation of the holdings in 352 

 storages on October 15, 1916. They showed a stock of 949,147 

 barrels and 1,062,564 boxes. This was 47.8 per cent less than was 

 stored on October 15 of the previous season. Most of these hold- 

 ings were probably stored after October 1 and amounted to more 

 than one-third of the total quantity placed in storage during the 

 season. By November 1 almost three-fourths of the holdings of 

 the season had been stored. The balance of the holdings, with 

 the exception of about 7 per cent, were stored before the 15th of 

 November. 



The holdings of December 1 represented practically all the apples 

 stored for the season. In the 450 storages reporting they amounted 

 to 2,603,584 barrels and 3,913,290 boxes. Three boxes are equivalent 

 to about one barrel in quantity, so these storages held approximately 

 3,908,000 barrels. The boxed apples therefore represented one-third 

 of the total holdings. In 1915 the boxed apples comprised one-fifth, 

 and in 1914 one-fourth, of the total holdings. 



