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BULLETIN 776, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



More than 45 per cent of the total holdings on August 1, 

 1917, was stored in the cities of Chicago, New York, Boston 

 and St. Louis. Chicago held the largest amount, 1,383,300 

 cases, amounting to 21 per cent of the total. New York came 

 next with 1,060,266 cases, Boston third with 435,439 cases, 

 and St. Louis fourth with 125,331 cases. The movement into 

 storage began first in the Western states. Nearly one-fourth 

 of the holdings in the Western South section were in storage 

 by April 1. By May 1 more than half of the holdings in that 

 section and 35 per cent in the Western North section were 

 stored. The holdings in the latter section reached their highest 

 point on July 1. 



Table 24 shows the holdings as reported monthly compared 

 with the holdings of the preceding month, and figure 7 shows 

 graphically the holdings of each month compared with those 

 of August 1 for the past two seasons and also for a ten-year 

 average of the reports of the Associated Warehouses. 



Table 24. Monthly and semi-monthly cold storage holdings of case eggs 



as compared with previous report. 



Date. 



Storages 

 report- 

 ing. 



Comparative holdings. 



Current 

 report. 



Preceding 

 report. 



Increase or decrease. 



April 1 



May 1 



May 15 



June 1 



June 15 



July 1 



August 1 . . . . 

 September 1 . 

 October 1 . . . . 

 November 1 . . 

 November 15. 

 December 1 . . 

 December 15. 

 January 1 . . . 

 February 1 . . 



Number, 

 293 

 313 

 332 

 324 

 311 

 354 

 326 

 360 

 392 

 407 

 388 

 405 

 411 

 414 

 408 



Cases. 



164,518 

 1,818,703 

 3,221,970 

 4,481,827 

 5,661,947 

 6,105,570 

 6,194,173 

 5,893,404 

 5,592,897 

 4,429,888 

 3,653,538 

 2,799,012 

 1,618,181 

 988,228 

 191,520 



Cases. 

 5,280 

 165,659 

 1,848,073 

 3,711,098 

 4,446,940 

 5,455,685 

 6,036,576 

 6,508,813 

 5,975,875 

 5,526,629 

 4,420,374 

 3,677,203 

 2,259,724 

 1,648,961 

 1,179,950 



Cases. 

 + 159,238 

 + 1,653,044 

 + 1,373,897 

 + 770,729 

 + 1,215,007 

 + 649,885 

 + 157,597 



— 615,813 



— 382,978 



— 1,096,741 



— 766,836 



— 878,191 



— 641,543 



— 660,733 



— 988,430 



Per cent. 

 + 3,015.9 

 + 997.9 

 74.3 

 20.8 

 27.3 

 11.9 



+ 



2.6 

 9.5 

 6.4_ 

 19.8 

 17.3 

 23.9 

 28.4 

 40.1 

 83.8 



The comparative monthly movement to and from storage 

 for the past two seasons is shown in Table 25 and also for an 

 average of ten years as compiled from the reports of the Asso- 

 ciated Warehouses for 1907 to 1916, inclusive. 



Table 25. — Monthly percentages of increases and decreases in holdings of 



cold storage eggs. 



Season. 



Per cent, of increases. 





Per cent. 



of decreases. 









Mar. 



April 



May June 



July 



Aug. 



Sept. 



Oct. 



Nov. j Dec. 



Jan. 



Feb. 



Assoc. Whse.I . 



1916-1917 



1917-1918 



11.1 

 4.7 

 2.8 



38.4 

 36.3 

 26.7 



26.5 

 37.3 

 43.0 



19.6 

 16.7 

 24.7 



4.4 

 5.0 

 2.8 



4,0 



10.3 



8.4 



10.3 



13.7 



8.4 



18.3 

 19.2 

 16.4 



22.9 

 23.1 

 25.0 



25.2 

 19.2 

 24.7 



14.0 

 12.1 

 15.0 



4.9 

 1.7 

 1.9 



^ Reports of Associated Warehouses, 1907 to 1916, inclusive. 



