32 BULLETIN 776, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 34. — Monthly holdings of frozen poultry for season 1917-1918. 



Date. 



Total 

 holdings. 



Broilers. 



Roasters. 



Fowls. 



Turkeys. 



Misc. 

 poultry. 



July 



Pounds. 

 55,704,435 

 50,125,012 

 52,596,250 

 45,608,617 

 52,557,223 

 49,749,819 

 63,495,687 

 67,729,215 

 57,251,341 

 43,834,616 

 26,553,783 

 18,905.632 



Pounds. 



3,769,671 



3,555,694 



2,517,336 



3,405,894 



5,074,028 



8,877,926 



9,050,855 



8,250,415 



7,383,141 



4,796,790 



3,144,835 



1,720,069 



Pounds. 



5,231,397 



4,962,127 



3,897,323 



3,275,639 



5,160,063 



12,307,964 



16,598,683 



17,978,167 



14,486,271 



11,523,853 



6,974,239 



3,921,708 



Pounds. 



2,033,018 



1,860,764 



1,258,923 



2,021,332 



3,269,014 



8,649,707 



13,219,137 



15,090,069 



12,622,601 



9,165,095 



4,957,940 



2,716,634 



Pounds. 

 3,639,182 

 3,558,683 

 3,193,483 

 3,404,313 

 6,485,291 

 3,298,063 

 4,577,367 

 10,515,828 

 9,824,560 

 8,614,438 

 6,490,759 

 5,935,480 



Pounds. 

 41,031,167 





36,187,844 



September 



41,729,185 

 33,501,439 



November 



Decembe'r 



January 



February 



32,568,827 

 16,616,159 

 20,049,645 

 15,894,736 

 12,934,768 





9,734,440 



May 



4,986,010 



June 



4,611,741 



Although the Bureau did not begin issuing reports until 

 May 1, 1917, in sending out the monthly inquiries, information 

 was also requested as to the amount in storage on the same 

 date the previous year. The data thus obtained, however, 

 were very incomplete as many firms had no records from 

 which to report their holdings for the season of 1916-1917, 

 Figure 13 shows the relative monthly holdings for the season 

 of 1916-191-7 and 1917-1918. It will be observed that the 

 largest holdings were in storage on January 1, 1917, and that 

 the carry-over was so great that on July 1, 1917, they were 

 greater than on January 1, 1918, the date on which the largest 

 holdings of that season would normally be expected. It is also 

 quite probable that this large carry-over and possible ensuing 

 losses to the dealers led to a much smaller quantity being 

 placed in cold storage, the holdings being about one-third of 

 those of the previous season. 



