REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 9 
TaBie 4.—Cold storage holdings of frozen pork as reported on May 1, 1918. 
Reported for May 1, 1918. Comparison with May 1, 1917. 
| 
. Stor- Percent-| Storages 
See. ages Holdings age of |reporting May 1, May 1, Tniere aia 
report- reported. total | on both 1917. 1918. decrease. 
ing. holdings.| dates. 
Number.| Pounds. Per cent.| Number. Pounds. . Pounds. Per cent. 
New England __-_-_- 35 10,478,041 le 31 7,226,239 10,031,810 | + 38.8 
Middle Atlantic_ __ 83 22,323,967 16.6 75 9,095,533 22,176,752 | +143.8 
South Atlantic_-___ 25 1,869,225 1.4 24 477,167 1,793,047 | +275.8 
N. Central (east) __ 76 47,755,942 35.4 65 21,226,318 42,616,383 | +100.8 
N. Central (west) 60 38,846,295 28.8 56 27,373,956 37,577,821 + 37.3 
South Central_____ 31 3,467,867 2.6 25 3,325,443 2,866,967 | — 13.8 
Western (north) __-_ 22 3,845,590 2.9 18 2,741,160 3,820,216 | + 39.4 
Western (south) -_-- 28 6,046,094 4.5 24 3,262,004 5,783,548 + 77.3 
HoOtalaahs Steet 360 | 134,633,021 100.0 318 74,727,820 | 126,666,544 | + 69.5 
More than 80 per cent of the stocks of May 1 were stored in the 
Middle Atlantic and North Central sections. Chicago cold storages 
held one-fourth of the stocks and Greater New York cold storages 
13.6 per cent. The percentages in the North Central and Middle 
Atlantic sections varied from 80.8 per cent to 71.5 per cent in October. 
Table 5 shows the holdings of each month during the year, including 
both the stocks reported and an estimate of the holdings of those 
firms whose reports were not received. It also shows the amount of 
monthly increases and decreases. 
|Jan.| Feb.|Mar.| Apr.| May | June [July | Aug./Sept Oct. | Nov. 
Fic. 4.—Relative monthly cold storage holdings of frozen pork during 1916, 1917, and 1918. Base 
100 equals holdings on May 1, 1918. 
