COLD STORAGE REPORTS, 1917-1918. 



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There were large importations of frozen and dried eggs 

 during the season. Table 33 shows the importations from 

 June, 1916, to March, 1918, as compiled from the reports of 

 the Department of Commerce. Figures previous to that date 

 are not available. 



Table 33.r — Monthly importations of frozen and dried eggs and yolks 



of eggs. 



Month. 



1916-1917. 



1917-1918. 



April . 

 May. 

 June. 



July 



August. . . 

 September . 

 October. . . . 

 November . 

 December. , 

 Janaury. . . 

 February. . 

 March 



Comparative totals 

 Grand totals 



Pounds. 



8,770,788 

 8,770,788 



Pounds. 

 1,053,774 

 1,022,371 

 1,332,584 



513,583 



1,101,327 



349,585 



2,555,800 



1,079,210 



2,033,528 



1,392;714 



1,187,447 



261,907 



1,483,669 



1 129,850 



1,315,683 



820,078 



606,384 



500,375 



502,191 



1,861,743 



1,450,494 



12,365,.523 

 15,645,252 



REVIEW OF REPORTS ON COLD STORAGE HOLDINGS OF 

 FROZEN POULTRY. 



The Bureau of Markets began securing reports showing the 

 holdings of frozen poultry in cold storage on May 1, 1917. 

 The reports show this product segregated into five different 

 classifications, viz., broilers, roasters, fowls, turkeys, and mis- 

 cellaneous poultry. The first four varieties are segregated 

 according to classifications generally used by the trade and 

 all others are classified as miscellaneous. 



The reports received for several months were rather unsat- 

 isfactory owing to the difficulties encountered by the cold 

 storage warehouses in segregating the poultry held into these 

 different classifications. During this period the holdings of 

 the storages that were unable to segregate were also included 

 with miscellaneous poultry. Table 34 ghows the number of 

 pounds of each variety reported monthly to the Bureau from 

 July, 1917, to June, 1918, inclusive, and figure 12 shows the 

 comparative percentage that each variety is of the total 

 amounts reported each month for the season of 1917-1918. 

 For the first half of the season these percentages are of value 

 only in showing the progress made in securing the proper 

 segregations. In the latter part of the season they show the 

 actual percentages of the different varieties stored as the 

 segregations were then satisfactorily made by practically all 

 of the cold storage warehouses. 



