REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 19 
Figure 8 shows the relative monthly holdings for the years 1916 to 
1918, inclusive. It is prepared on a percentage basis and also shows 
the relative monthly movement. It will be observed that the stocks 
of 1916, except for the months of November and December, were 
considerably smaller than those of the two preceding years. 
Figure 9 illustrates the relative quantities on hand on the first day 
of each month during 1918. The holdings decreased monthly from 
January to June, then increased monthly until December, excepting 
for a slight decrease during September. ‘The holdings never reached 
a very low point. The stocks on July 1 amounted to 23,635,508 
pounds, a decrease of only 42.6 per cent from the maximum holdings 
of January 1. 
| DRY SALT PORK. 
The reports received by the Bureau of Markets during 1918 showed 
extremely large holdings of dry salt pork. The largest quantity 
reported was held on June 1, when 480 cold storages and packing 
houses reported stocks of 490,193,305 pounds. Reports were not 
received from two warehouses for that date. Basing an estimate on 
their reports for other months, it is probable that their holdings on 
that date amounted to approximately 18,000 pounds. The reports 
of the 436 storages that reported for both June 1, 1917, and June 1, 
1918, showed that the amount held on June 1 was 125 per cent more 
than was stored on the same date of the previous year. 
Taste 13.—Cold storage holdings of dry salt pork as reported on June 1, 1918. 
Reported for June 1, 1918. Comparison with June 1, 1917. 
= Stor- Percent-| Storages 3 
Seqlian. ages Holdings age of jreporting June 1, June 1, Ingre aE 
report- reported. total | on both 1917. 1918. decrease 
ing. holdings.| dates. c 
Number. Pounds. Per cent.| Number. Pounds. Pounds. Per cent. 
New England _-_-_-_-_ 23 19,608,411 4.0 21 10,138,692 18,570,112 + 83.2 
Middle Atlantic___ 81 22,474,766 4.5 74 8,419,180 22,346,140 +165.4 
South Atlantic_-__- 64 7,193,021 Alo 55 4,802,019 6,246,308 + 30.1 
N. Central (east) __ 122 | 208,262,182 42.5 116 88,303,950 | 207,278,712 +134.7 
N. Central (west) _ 79 | 204,478,633 41.7 74 87,545,140 | 199,959,376 + 128.4 
South Central_____ 46 19,545,621 4.0 40 10,734,072 18,718,829 + 74.4 
Western (north) ___ 31 3,347,439 0 29 1,334,493 3,248,006 + 143.4 
Western (south) __-_ 34 5,283,232 tea PIE 2,524,153 4,671,727 + 85.1 
Totaleizs. 253 480 | 490,193,305 100.0 436 | 213,801,699 | 481,039,210 | +125.0 
More than 84 per cent of the stocks of June 1, 1918, were stored 
in the North Central States, 42.5 per cent being east of the Mississippi 
River and 41.7 per cent west of the Mississippi. More than 70 per 
cent of the holdings of each month throughout the year were held in 
the North Central States. One-fourth of the total holdings of the 
United States on June 1, 1918, was stored in Chicago. 
