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BULLETIN 776, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



1, based upon their holdings for other months, would increase 

 this amount to approximately 108,750,000 pounds. 



Table 9 shows the total holdings of that date segregated by- 

 sections and a comparison of the holdings of 332 storages with 

 the amounts they held on the same date of the previous season. 



Table 9. Cold storage holdings of creamery butter as reported on 



October 1, 1917. 





Reported for October 1, 1917. 



Compaiison with October 1, 1916. 



Section. 



Stor- 

 ages 

 report- 

 ing. 



Holdings 

 reported. 



Percent- 

 age of 

 total 

 holdings. 



.Stor- 

 ages 

 report- 

 ing on 

 both 

 dates. 



October 1, 

 1916. 



October 1, 

 1917. 



Increase 



or 

 decrease. 



New England 



Middle Atlantin 



South Atlantic 



North Central (E) . . . . 



North Central (W) 



South Central 



Western (N) 



Number. 

 31 

 97 

 36 

 70 

 61 

 41 

 33 

 35 



Pounds. 



24,670,458 



32,362,904 



2,094,113 



28,824,677 



11 899,834 



1,584,998 



1,807,300 



3,231,476 



Per cent. 



23.2 



30.3 



2.0 



27.1 



11.2 



1.5 



1.7 



3.0 



Number. 

 27 

 82 

 24 

 54 

 66 • 

 36 

 26 

 27 



Pounds. 



25.044,.351 



30, 883 ,-321 



1,475,272 



27,359,933 



8,915,165 



1,268,628 



1,9.30,854 



3,644,049 



Pounds. 

 22,802,188 

 30,777,908 



1,630,806 

 24,233,900 

 11,571,681 



1,576,298 



1.649,556 



Per cent. 



— 9.0 



— 0.3 



+ 10.5 

 —11.4 

 + 29.7 

 + 24.3 

 —14 6 



Western (S) 



3,214,539 — 11. 8 







Total 



404 



106,475,760 



100.0 



332 



100,521,573 



97,456,876 — 3.0 



This comparison, however, does not show the comparative, 

 amounts stored in the two seasons. The peak load of the 

 1916-1917 season occurred on September 1, while in the 1917- 

 1918 season the largest quantity was held on October 1. If we 

 compare the holdings of the 275 storages reporting for these 

 two dates they show 106,113,839 pounds on September 1, 

 1916, and 94,712,624 pounds on October 1, 1917, a decrease 

 of 11,401,215 pounds or 10.7 per cent. 



Figure 3 shows graphically the holdings of each month com- 

 pared with those of October 1 for the seasons of 1916-1917, 

 1917-1918 and a ten-year average of the reports of the Asso- 

 ciated Warehouses. It will be observed both there and in 

 table 10, which shows the monthly increases and decreases, 

 that the greatest increases were made during June and July, 

 72,538,825 pounds or approximately 78 per cent of the total 

 holdings being stored during these months. 



Table 10. — Monthly and semi-monthly cold storage holdings of creamery 

 butter as compared with previous reports. 



Date. 



Storages 

 reporting. 



Comparative holdings. 



Current 

 report. 



Preceding 

 report. 



Increase or decrease. 



•June 1 



June 15 



July 1 



July 15. . . . . 

 August 1 . . . 

 September 1 . 

 October 1 . . . 

 November 1. 

 December 1. 

 January 1 . . . 

 Pebruary 1 . . 

 Marchl . . . . 

 April 1 



Number. 

 235 

 254 

 271 

 241 

 261 

 294 

 320 

 357 

 354 

 337 

 343 

 357 

 360 



Pounds. 



8,436,079 

 22,581,838 

 46,631,533 

 64,525,601 

 84,101,347 

 98,683,757 

 98,749,922 

 98,886,972 

 77,219,724 

 46,956.949 

 22.249,328 

 18,034,428 

 14,581,614 



Pounds. 



2,698,017 



8,507,640 



23,224,309 



47,497,334 



66,072,211 



86,235,920 



98,672,970 



105,253,730 



97,211,996 



74,711,024 



43,191,036 



26,160,246 



19,075,492 



Pounds. 

 + 5,738,062 

 + 14,074,198 

 + 23,407,224 

 + 17,028,267 

 + 18,029,136 

 + 12,447,837 

 + 76,952 



— 6,366,758 

 —19,992,272 

 —27,754,075 

 —20,941,708 



— 8,125,818 



— 4,493,878 



Per cent. 

 + 212.7 

 + 165.4 

 + 100.8 

 + 35.9 

 + 27.3 

 + 14.4 

 + 0.1 



— 6.0 



— 20.6 



— 37.1 



— 48.5 



— 31.1 



— 23.6 



