12 BULLETIN 792, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
was nearly 43,000,000 pounds. The decreases were more regular, and 
varied from 500,000,000 pounds during May to 36,800,000 pounds 
during August. The stocks increased monthly until May 1, then 
decreased until December 1. During December there was an increase 
of 2614 million pounds, indicating that the 1919 stocks were beginning 
to go into cold storage. 
FROZEN LAMB AND MUTTON. 
The holdings of frozen lamb and mutton as reported on December 
1, 1918, amounted to 9,046,250 pounds. All cold storages and pack- 
ing plants on the list of the Bureau of Markets reported their holdings 
for that date. These stocks were 53.7 per cent greater than on 
December 1, 1917. Table 7 segregates the holdings of December 1, 
1918, by geographical sections, and compares the holdings of each 
section with those of December 1, 1917. 
TABLE 7.—Cold storage holdings of frozen lamb and mutton as reported on December 1, 
1918. 
Reported fer December 1, 1918. Comparison with December 1, 1917. 
: Stor- Percent- Storages 
SESAOe- ages Holdings age of |reporting} December 1, | December 1, incre eck 
report- reported. total | on both 1917. 1918. Hecrense 
ing. holdings.| dates. i 
Number. Pounds. Per cent.| Number. Pounds. Pounds. Per cent. 
New England_-_-_-_-_ 23 965,934 10.7 22 938,378 965,891 + 2.9 
Middle Atlantic_-__ 57 2,944,048 32.5 53 2,209,845 2,738,978 | + 23.9 
South Atlantic___-_ 14 164,539 1.8 12 108,369 163,889 + 51.2 
N. Central (east) __ 34 2,351,142 26.0 29 1,118,979 2,031,756 + 81.6 
N. Central (west) _ 35 1,608,718 17.8 31 428,480 1,411,880 | +229.5 
South Central__-___ 16 326,575 3.6 13 61,405 324,507 +428.5 
Western (north) _-__ 27 204,473 2.3 23 306,338 198,103 | — 35.2 
Western (south) -___ 21 480,821 a3 20 233,976 476,383 | +103.6 
Motaleea. tees 227 9,046,250 100.0 203 5,405,770 8,311,337 | + 53.7 
It will be observed that of the 9,046,250 pounds reported for 
December 1, 32.5 per cent was stored in the Middle Atlantic’ States, 
26 per cent in the North Central East section, 17.8 per cent in the 
Central West section, and 10.7 per cent in the New England section, 
a total of 87 per cent of the total United States holdings. Approxi- 
mately 28 per cent was stored in greater New York and 25 per cent 
in Chicago. 
Table 8 shows the total holdings for each month during 1918, 
these totals being based on the stocks of the warehouses reporting, 
plus an estimate of the holdings of storages not reporting. By com- 
paring this table with Table 8 it will be observed that the unreported 
stocks amounted to a very small percentage of the quantities reported 
monthly. Using the stocks of December 1 as a base, this table also 
shows the percentage of the holdings of each month, the monthly 
increase and decrease in holdings expressed in pounds, and the per- 
centage that this decrease is of the stocks of the previous month. 
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