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BULLETIN 792, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



Table 10. — Cold storage holdings of cured beef as reported on January 1, 19i8. 





Reported for January 



1, 1918. 



Comparison with January 1, 1917. 





Stor- 





Percent- 



Storages 











ages 



Holdings 



age of 



reporting 



January 1, 



January 1, 







report- 



reported. 



total 



on both 



1917. 



1918. 







ing. 





heldings. 



dates. 











Number. 



Pounds. 



Per cent. 



Number. 



Pounds. 



Pounds. 



Per cent. 



New England 



26 



1,389,312 



3.6 



20 



821,371 



1,199,312 



+ 46.0 



Middle Atlantic 



95 



4,553,085 



11.9 



80 



5,649,827 



4,164,069 



- 26.3 



South Atlantic 



34 



648,422 



1.7 



29 



324,424 



623,144 



-f 92.1 



N. Central (east).. 



94 



16,558,496 



43.3 



87 



17,032,000 



16,338,459 



- 4.1 



N. Central (west) . 



49 



13,294,063 



34.7 



47 



12,985,971 



12,913,430 



- 0.6 



South Central 



22 



607,197 



1.6 



16 



427,529 



572,821 



+ 34.0 



Western (north) 



20 



374,198 



1.0 



19 



488,398 



326,313 ■ 



- 33.2 



Western (south) 



23 



854,491 



2.2 



18 



509,720 



838,298 



+ 64.5 



Total 



363 



38,279,264 



100.0 



316 



38,239,240 



36,975,846 



- 3.3 



Table 10 shows the holdings as reported on January 1, 1918, 

 segregated by geographical sections and a comparison of the holdings 

 of that date with those of January 1, 1917. This segregation shows 

 that 90 per cent of the total holdings were stored in the Middle 

 Atlantic and North Central sections. More than 900,000 pounds of 

 the unreported stocks were stored in Chicago, so the North Central 

 East section held 44.5 per cent of the total holdings of the United 

 States, while Chicago storages alone held 38.2 per cent. Greater New 

 York held a little less than 5 per cent of the total stocks. 



Table 11. — Monthly storage holdings of cured beef during 1918, and increase or 

 decrease during each month. 



Month. 



Holdings 



Relative 



on first 



percent- 



of month. 



age. 



Pounds. 



Per cent. 



39,242,571 



100.0 



38,792,639 



98.9 



37,574,581 



95.7 



35,401,132 



90.2 



30,260,979 



77.1 



26,340,468 



67.1 



23,635,508 



60.2 



29,636,112 



75.5 



30,211,517 



77.0 



28,929,060 



73.7 



30,154,358 



76.8 



32,583,167 



83.0 



Increase or decrease 

 during month. 



January. -. 

 February. 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 



October 



November 

 December. 



Pounds. 

 - 449,932 

 -1,218,058 

 -2,173,443 

 -5,140,153 

 -3,920,511 

 -2,704,960 

 -f- 6,000,604 

 -f- 575,405 

 -1,282,457 

 + 1,225,298 

 -f2,428,809 

 + 3,583,175 



Per cent. 



- 1.1 



- 3.1 



- 5.8 

 -14.5 

 -13.0 

 -10.3 

 + 25.4 

 + 1.9 



- 4.2 

 + 4.2 

 + 8.0 

 + 11.0 



Table 11 shows the total holdings of each month during the year 

 and the percentage of the holdings of each month based on the stocks 

 of January 1. It also shows the monthly increase and decrease in 

 holdings and the percentage that each month's increase or decrease 

 is of the stocks on hand on the first day of that month. The data in 

 this table are based on the total monthly stocks reported, plus an 

 estimate of the unreported holdings. 



