REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 



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Tabus 9. — Monthly cold-storage holdings of case eggs during the season 191 G 

 and ID 17, and comparison with holdings of preceding month. 



Month. 



April 1, 1916. 

 May 1,1916.. 

 June 1,1916.. 

 July 1,1916.. 

 Aug. 1,1916. 

 Sept. 1,1916. 

 Oct. 1,1916.. 

 Nov. 1,1916. 

 Dec. 1, 1916.. 

 Jan. 1,1917.. 

 Feb. 1, 1917.. 

 March 1, 1917 



Storages 

 reporting. 



212 

 233 

 236 

 224 

 235 

 296 

 325 

 364 

 374 

 272 

 204 

 260 



Comparative holdings. 



Current 

 month. 



182, 706 



2,269,851 



4,493,350 



5,440,704 



5, 652, 571 



5, 437, 412 



4,751,788 



3,577,956 



2,108,969 



896, 826 



140, 141 



4,100 



Preceding 

 month. 



34,439 

 261,257 

 353,332 

 485, 255 

 370, 530 

 064, 623 

 607, 562 

 789,945 

 543, 636 

 089, 344 

 897, 642 

 144, 257 



Increase or decrease. 



Coses. 

 + 148, 207 

 +2,008,594 

 +2,140,018 

 + 955,449 

 + 282, 041 



- 627,211 



- 855, 774 

 -1,211,989 

 -1,434,667 

 -1,192,518 



- 751,501 



- 140, 157 



Per cent. 

 +430. 5 

 +708. 8 

 + 90.9 

 + 21.3 

 + 5.3 



- 10.3 



- 15.3 



- 25.3 



- 40.5 



- 57.1 



- 13.7 



- 97.2 



Table 9 shows tlie monthly increase and decrease throughout the 

 season, and j&gure 9 shows graphically the relative holdings on the 

 first of each month, from April 1, 1916, to March 1, 1917. The solid 

 portions of the diagram show the holdings on the first of the month, 

 while the hatched portions under May and June show the increase 

 from the 1st to the 15th of these months. All but about 10 per cent 

 of the holdings were stored during April, May, and June, and prac- 

 tically all that were stored after June 15 were removed from storage 

 before the 1st of September. Five per cent of tihe total holdings was 

 already in storage on April 1. The monthly decreases of the season's 



total holdings were as follows : 



Per cent. 



AxigUSt 10. 3 



September 13. 7 



October 19. 2 



Nos^ember 23. 1 



Per cent. 



December 19. 2 



January 12. 1 



February 1. 7 



A little more than one-tenth of 1 per cent stiiU -remained in storage 

 on March 1, 1917. 



T.y3LE 10. — Cold-storage holdmgs p/ frosen eggs as reported on Sept. 1, 1917. 





Total holdings, Sept. 1, 1917. 



Comparison with 1916. 



Section. 



Storages 

 report- 

 ing. 



Pounds. 



Percent- 

 age in 

 each 



section. 



Storages 

 report- 

 ing. 



Sept. 1, 

 1916. 



Sept. 1, 

 1917. 



Increase 

 or de- 

 crease. 



New England 



7 

 28 



7 

 36 

 40 

 12 



9 



9 



102,066 



7,899,779 

 148, 162 

 4, 137, 173 

 3, 787, 404 

 122,176 

 266, 672 

 545, 143 



0.6 



46.4 



.9 



24.3 



22.3 



.7 



1.6 



3.2 



5 

 12 



Pounds. 



55, 595 

 1,481,083 



Pounds. 

 59,116 

 7,365,836 



Per cent. 

 + 6.3 

 - 397.3 



Middle Atlantic 



South Atlantic 



North Central (east) 



North Central (west) 



South Central 



24 



30 



8 



6 



6 



2,372,730 



999, 437 



14, 083 



140, 059 



160,499 



3,178,399 



3,436,913 



50, 866 



90, 176 



527, 045 



- 34.0 

 +243.9 

 +271.2 



- 35.6 

 +228.4 



Western (north) 



Western (south) 





Total 



148 



17,008,575 



100.0 



91 



5,223,486 



14,708,351 



+181.6 



