REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 15 
TaBLE 9.—Monthly cold storage holdings of frozen lamb and mutton during 1918 com- 
pared with those of 1917. 
Reported for 1918. Comparison with 1917. 
Storages 
* WHORE Storages | Holdings | reporting 1917 1918. Increase 
reporting.| reported. for both f decrease: 
dates. 
Number. Pounds. Number. Pounds. Pounds. Per cent. 
Vamuanyes se Sh ee eS 200 7,356,166 147 4,885,678 5,456,148 +11.7 
Kebruarye2 2 ee es 201 6,314,420 157 5,895,319 5,365,317 — 9.0 
Marche axsenian (at uy ie 210 7,855,181 166 4,948,954 6,929,546 +40.0 
TN oe Bae eS 211 6,348,160 170 4,871,723 5,653,730 +16.1 
Vilaype ems ee tes | seo 209 4,032,887 171 4,368,770 3,663,231 —16.1 
CITED Gy eget a 2 2 eee re epee 201 4,242,760 169 3,508,294 3,963,836 +13.0 
July ae eae ee ee To 205 3,493,461 173 4,380,373 3,149,321 — 28.1 
VANE US bee ee 214 4,101,370 179 3,912,194 3,728,697 — 4.7 
September______________- 210 4,046,377 178 2,715,659 3,788,231 +39.5 
Octoher= = see ae 225 5,241,761 185 2,768,033 4,543,219 +64.1 
November___________-_-_- 231 8,610,224 195 4,193,668 7,738,444 +84.5 
December! 22 ees 226 9,046,250 203 5,405,770 8,311,337 +53.7 
Figure 7 illustrates the relative quantities held on the first day of 
each month during 1918. 
REVIEW OF THE 1918 STORAGE HOLDINGS OF CURED 
MEATS AND LARD. 
The three varieties of cured meats on which reports are made by 
the Bureau of Markets are cured beef, dry salt pork, and pickled 
pork. The reports also cover the stocks of lard and miscellaneous 
meats. Included in miscellaneous meats are all stocks of beef, pork 
and mutton trimmings and all stocks of beef, pork and mutton edible 
offal whether frozen, cured or otherwise prepared for food. It does 
not include sausage and canned meat products. Reports on these 
commodities were not requested until August 1, 1918, and sufficient 
data have not been secured to show the holdings and movement for 
a season. In the cured meat products are included meats in process 
of cure as well as meat on which the process of curing is completed. 
CURED BEEF. 
The largest quantity of cured beef reported during the season was 
held on January 1, 1918. The 363 storages that reported for that 
date showed stocks of 38,279,264 pounds. It is estimated that the 
holdings of the 3 storages that did not report amounted to 963,307 
pounds, making a total of 39,242,571 pounds. This was about 314 
per cent less than the holdings for January 1, 1917. | 
