UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



BULLETIN No. 776 



Contribution from the Bureau of Markets, 

 CHARLES J. BRAND, Chief. 



Washington, D. C. March, 1919. 



COLD STORAGE REPORTS, SEASON 



1917-1918. 



Apples, Butter, American Cheese, Eggs, and Poultry. 



By John O. Bell 



Assistant in Market Sur'veys. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. Page. 



Introduction 1 Review of the 1917-1918 season for 



Review of the 1917-1918 season for cold storage of American cheese... 14 



cold storage of apples 2 Review of the 1917-1918 season for 



Review of the 1917-1918 season for cold storage of case eggs ' 18 



cold storage of creamery butter.... 7 Review of the 1917-1918 season for 



Review of the 1917-1918 season for cold storage of frozen eggs 28 



cold storage of packing stock Review of reports on cold storage 



butter 13 holdings of frozen poultry 31 



Distribution of reports 44 



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INTRODUCTION. 



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HIS BULLETIN is the second of a series of reviews of the 

 storage reports of the Bureau of Markets. The first of 

 the series was published as U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 Bulletin 709, entitled "Reports of Storage Holdings." It gave 

 a summary of the work of the Bureau up to January 1, 1918, 

 -and reviewed the cold storage season of 1916-1917 for apples, 

 butter, American cheese and case eggs. It also reviewed the 

 previous year's reports on the storage holdings of frozen and 

 cured meats. The present bulletin reviews the season of 1917- 

 1918 for apples, creamery butter, packing stock butter, Ameri- 

 can cheese, case eggs, frozen eggs and frozen poultry. The 

 storage holdings of frozen fish and frozen and cured meats 

 during 1918 will be reviewed in a separate bulletin which will 

 be issued as soon as possible. 



