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BULLETIN 776, U. S. DKPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 16 shows the holdings as reported on September 1, 

 1917, segregated by sections of the country and a comparison 

 of the holdings of 55 storages with the amount held on Sep- 

 tember 1, 1916, and table 17 shows the holdings of each month 

 compared with those of the preceding month. 



Table 16. — Cold storage holdings of packing stock butter as reported on 



September 1, 1917. 





Reported for September 1, 1917. 



Comparison wi|;h October 1, 1916. 



Section. 



Storages 

 reporting. 



Holdings 

 reported. 



Percent- 

 age of 

 total 

 holdings. 



Stor- 

 ages 

 report- 

 ing on 

 both 

 dates. 



September 1, 

 1916. 



September 1, 

 1917. 



Decrease. 



New England 



Number. 







6 



6 

 25 

 35 



9 



5 



3 



Pounds. 







135,769 



238,762 



749,662 



1,261,952 



56,713 



26,914 



61,543 



Per cent. 







5.4 



9.4 



29.6 



49.9 



2.2 



1.1 



2.4 



Number. 

 

 2 

 4 

 16 

 24 

 5 

 1 

 3 



Pounds. 







243,800 



291,774 



1,455,636 



1.501,756 



71,890 



48,313 



82,005 



Pounds. 







83,400 



190,080 



516,936 



607,522 



29,298 



6,249 



61,543 



Per cent. 

 



Middle Atlantic 



South Atlantic 



North Central (E) 



North Central (W) 



South Central 



Western (N) 



65.8 

 34.9 

 64.5 

 59.5 

 59.2 

 87.1 



Western (S) 



25.0 







Total 



89 



2,531,215 



100.0 



55 



3,695,074 



1,495,028 



59.5 



Table 17. — Monthly cold storage holdings of packing stock butter com- 

 pared with previous months. 



Date. 



October 1 . . . 

 November 1 . 

 December 1. 

 January 1 . . 

 February 1 . , 

 March 1.. . . 





Comparative holdings. 







Storages 

 reporting. 









Current 



Preceding 



Decrease. 





month. 



month. 





Number. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Per cent 



72 



1,622,720 



2,295,808 



673,088 



29.3 



98 



1,473,851 



2,373,940 



900,089 



37.9 



108 



1,661,496 



1,751.900 



90,404 



5.2 



110 



1,443,466 



1,866,618 



422,152 



22.6 



114 



1.358,179 



1,578,784 



220,605 



14.0 



130 



857,831 



1,535,997 



678,166 



44.2 



No reports were received showing the movement of packing 

 stock butter into storage. The holdings decreased during the 

 months of September and October but increased during No- 

 vember. Decreases were again shown in December, January 

 and February, and on March 1 the holdings amounted to 22.2 

 per cent of the amount stored on September 1. Figure 5 shows 

 graphically comparative monthly holdings from September to 

 March, inclusive. 



REVIEW OF THE 1917-1918 SEASON FOR COLD STORAGE OF 

 AMERICAN CHEESE. 



The reports of the Bureau of Markets show that an excep- 

 tionally large quantity of American cheese was placed in cold 

 storage during the 1917-1918 season. The reports from 464 

 cold storage plants showed holdings of 92,449,996 pounds on 

 October 1, 1917. As all the cold storage warehouses did not 

 report their holdings on that date, this amount did not include 

 all the stock. A careful estimate based on the holdings of 

 other months by the remaining storages shows that the total 



