REPOETS OF STOEAGE HOLDINGS. 



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month. The holdmgs were reduced 44.6 per cent in those months. 

 The distribution of the barreled- apple stock began earlier in the sea- 

 son than that of the boxed apples. The month of December showed 

 a movement of 15 per cent of the former compared with one-tenth of 

 1 per cent of the latter, a reduction of 10 per cent in the total holdings. 

 By June 1 the holdings had been reduced to 163,806 barrels and 

 221,122 boxes, or about 5 per cent of the total quantity stored. The 

 percentage of the barreled apples remaining in storage was approxi- 

 mately the same as the percentage of the boxed apples still held. 

 There was a larger percentage left in storage on June 1 than in the 

 previous two seasons. June 1, 1916, showed 4.3 per cent left in storage 

 and June 1, 1915, 1.9 per cent. 



REVIEW OF THE 1916-17 COLD-STORAGE SEASON FOR BUTTER. 



The largest holdings of creamery butter for this season were re- 

 ported on September 1, 1916. The quantity in storage at that time 

 represented practically the entire amount stored for the season by the 

 warehouses reporting. The report covered 268 storages and showed 

 a stock of 105,806,003 pounds. This was approximately the same 

 quantit}/ as was stored in the previous season, there being only a 

 difference of two-thirds of 1 per cent. The accompanying tabulation 

 (Table 3) shows the holdings on September 1, segregated by sections. 

 Only a very small proportion, approximately 10 per cent, was stored 

 outside of the New England, Middle Atlantic, and North Central 

 States. Of the 29.4 per cent stored in the North Central section, east 

 of the Mississippi Elver, 22.4 per cent was stored in the city of 

 Chicago. 



Table 3. — Cold-storage holdings of creamery hutter as reported on Sept. 1, 1916. 



Section. 



Storages 

 reporting. 



Pounds. 



Percentage 



in each sec-. 



tion. 



New England 



Middle Atlantic 



South Atlantic 



North Central (east). 

 North Central (west) 



South Central 



V/estern (north) 



Western (south) 



Total 



908, 623 

 263, 797 

 429,666 

 133,057 

 132,755 

 345,638 

 112,308 

 510,159 



105, S3G, 003 



24.5 

 28.6 

 1.4 

 29.4 

 8.6 

 1.2 

 2.0 

 4.3 



100.0 



Figure 7 shows the comparative holdings on the 1st of each month 

 throughout the season. At the beginning of the season, on May 1, 

 there were a little more than a million pounds already in storage. 

 This may be considered the carry-over from the preceding season 

 and amounted to a little more than 1 per cent of the holdings of 

 September 1. All but 5 per cent of the season's total holdings were 

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