26 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. 
Holdings Relative 
Month. a rea eerie Increase or decrease 
Sf acute aa. during month. 
Pounds. Per cent. Pounds. Per cent. 
Janmary = Se eh Ra ee ee ey eee 54,539,198 51.2 + 4,771,244 + 8.7 
Mebruary. tes sk Ne ee Sere erm 59,310,442 STB / + 6,044,811 +10.2 
March's 2) tc 2 2 Ba ee: ee ee eee 65,355,253 61.4 + 24,498,566 +37.5 
aN 0) et | WesgeoMuss ieee ee phe Meenas Me mecca 0 Ae) 8 ip UE 2 OP Sn SN 89,853,819 84.4 +13,519,583 +15.0 
VT yy et eS EE a SS er) Sane eS 2 103,373,402 97.1 + 2,820,922 +27.3 
AT Et ee Ge ee Ne Sn I 2 ee 106,194,324 99.7 + 296,632 + 0.3 
Saily = oe 2 etcetera cy See ee Ro 106,490,956 100.0 — 4,695,964 — 44 
AMICTISE Ste - fhe th kt See Re eee cee ad 101,794,992 95.6 + 2,840,569 + 2.8 
September 22) tessa. Fae ee ee ee 104,635,561 98.3 — 14,409,536 —13.8 
Wetober = 2207 eae tt See ee ee ee 90,226,025 84.7 — 14,486,844 —16.1 
November? 2. Petes eR Ee | Seal 75,739,181 CAlRL + 5,931,368 + 7.8 
December=]: = 49 Lee ee Ser eee 81,670,549 76.5 +22,294.785 +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. 
‘Reported for 1918. Comparison with 1917. 
Storages 
tones Storages Holdings reporting 1917 1918. face 
reporting.| reported. for both 5 eeeeaSe 
dates. 
Number. Pounds. Number. Pounds. Pounds. Per cent. 
Jannary. 5 eee ee 525 54,190,596 414 80,977,065 49,253,023 — 39.2 
February 2222 tee eee 544 59,114,842 445 86,207,792 56,227,827 — 34.8 
March 3. 6250965 i 5. eae 562 65,308,753 479 88,459,714 62,931,026 — 28.9 
Aprils +. °scs shine as ee 576 89,853,819 497 65,178,669 85,616,150 +31.4 
Miay 2 ae oe a Ee 586 | 103,366,602 518 | 61,640,427 | 97,716,151 +58.5 
June.) IIa Ae A See 598 | 106,244,670 534 72,365,145 | 103,528,896 +43.1 
Sg aliy 2/251 Ve ELE ee 608 | 106,490,956 564 95,196,957 | 104,499,790 + 9.8 
ANISUSE:- 25 lees a ae 602 | 101,810,092 543 | 112,248,614 98,745,935 —12.0 
September__._____-_._____] 611 | 104,619,841 564 | 102,171,730 | 102,658,110 + 0.5 
October=3: ere Ee ee | 607 | 90,211,400 553 | 69,928,942 87,165,483 +24.6 
November! 22s sie-2 ao 594 | 76,226,395 548 37,095,455 73,464,701 +498.0 
Wecember= > 5). sis Tee 576 | 81,467,977 | 546 | 44,367,243 79,764,083 +79.8 
