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BULLETIN 792, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



On July 1, 1918, 608 concerns reported total stocks of 106,490,956 

 pounds. All cold storages and packing houses on the list of the Bureau 

 of Markets reported their holdings for that date. The reports of 564 

 concerns indicated that the holdings of that date were 9.8 per cent 

 more than on the same date in 1917. Sixty-five per cent of the 

 holdings of July 1 were in the North Central States and 16.4 per 

 cent in the New England States. One-fourth of the stocks were in 

 the city of Chicago and one-twentieth in Greater New York. 



Table 20. — Monthly storage holdings of lard during 1918, and increase or decrease 



during each month. 



Month. 



Holdings 



Relative 



on first 



percent- 



of month. 



age. 



Pounds. 



Per cent. 



54,539,198 



51.2 



59,310,442 



55.7 



65,355,253 



61.4 



89,853,819 



84.4 



103,373,402 



97.1 



106,194,324 



99.7 



106,490,956 



100.0 



101,794,992 



95.6 



104,635,561 



98.3 



90,226,025 



84.7 



75,739,181 



71.1 



81,670,549 



76.5 



Increase or decrease 

 during month; 



January.-. 

 February.. 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 



October 



November 

 December . 



Pounds. 



+ 4,771,244 

 + 6,044,811 

 + 24,498,566 

 + 13,519,583 

 + 2,820,922 

 + 296,632 

 - 4,695,964 

 + 2,840,569 

 - 14,409,536 

 - 14,486,844 

 + 5,931,368 

 + 22,294,785 



Per cent. 



+ 8.7 

 + 10.2 

 + 37.5 

 . +15.0 

 +27.3 

 + 0.3 

 - 4.4 

 + 2.8 

 -13.8" 

 -16.1 

 + 7.8 

 +27.3 



The stocks reported monthly, plus an estimate of the holdings of 

 the unreported concerns, are tabulated in Table 20 together with the 

 actual increases and decreases in holdings during each month. The 

 greatest increase is shown during March and the greatest decrease 

 during October. The smallest quantity held during the year was 

 reported on January 1, the holdings of that date being 51.2 per cent 

 of the July 1 holdings. After that date the lowest point reached was 

 on November 1, which showed a decrease of 28.9 per cent from the 

 maximum holdings on July 1. . 



Table 21. — Monthly storage holdings of lard during 1918 compared with those of 1917. 



Month. 



Reported for 1918. 



Storages 

 reporting. 



Holdings 

 reported. 



Comparison with 1917. 



Storages 



reporting 



for both 



dates. 



Increase 



or 

 decrease. 



January. _. 

 February.. 



March 



April 



May 



June 



July 



August 



September 



-October 



November 

 December. 



Number. 

 525 

 544 

 562 

 576 

 586 

 598 

 608 

 602 

 611 

 607 

 594 

 576 



Pounds. 



54,190,596 



59,111,842 



65,308,753 



89,853,819 



103,366,602 



106,244,670 



106,490,956 



101,810,092 



104,619,841 



90,211,400 



76,226,395 



81,467,977 



Number. 

 414 

 445 

 479 

 497 

 518 

 534 

 564 

 543 

 564 

 553 

 548 

 546 



Pounds. 



80,977,065 

 86,207,792 

 88,459,714 

 65,178,669 

 61,640,427 

 72,365,145 

 95,196,957 

 112,248,614 

 102,171,730 

 69,928,942 

 37,095,455 

 44,367,243 



Pounds. 



49,253,023 



56,227,827 



62,931,026 



85,616,150 



97,716,151 



103,528,896 



104,499,790 



98,745,935 



102,658,110 



87,165,483 



73,464,701 



79,764,083 



Per cent. 

 -39.2 

 -34.8 

 -28.9 

 + 31.4 

 + 58.5 

 +43.1 

 + 9.8 

 -12.0 

 + 0.5 

 +24.6 

 + 98.0 

 + 79.8 



