4 BULLETIN 792, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
REVIEW OF THE 1918 COLD STORAGE HOLDINGS OF FROZEN MEATS. 
The Bureau of Markets collects and publishes information regard- 
ing the monthly cold storage holdings of three classes of frozen meats— 
frozen beef, frozen pork, and frozen lamb and mutton. As reports 
are received from practically all cold storage and packing plants in 
the United States, the information secured shows the quantities on 
hand on the first of each month in both public and private cold 
storage warehouses and in packing house plants. 
The maximum quantities reported for each of these commodities 
on the first of any one month during the year were as follows: Frozen 
beef on January 1, 1918, 309,621,874 pounds; frozen pork on May 1, 
1918, 184,633,021 pounds; frozen lamb and mutton on December 1, 
1918, 9,046,250 pounds. 
These figures, of course, do not represent the total quantities frozen 
during the year, for, as no information has been secured regarding 
monthly receipts and deliveries, it is obvious that some meats may 
have been frozen and removed from the warehouses during the month, 
which would not appear in the reports of the stocks on hand on the 
first day of the month. The quantities reported since August 1, 1918, 
are stocks of carcasses and cuts only and do not include trimmings 
and offal. Previous to that date, through a misunderstanding, a few 
warehouses reported trimmings and edible offal with their other meat 
stocks. From corrected reports received for several months, it is 
estimated that the trimmings and offal thus included amount to 
approximately 3 per cent of the total stocks reported. 
FROZEN BEEF. 
The reports of the Bureau of Markets have shown extraordinarily 
large quantities of frozen beef stocks in cold storage during the year. 
To a great extent this is accounted for by the large quantities frozen 
for shipment overseas. It is probable that much more was frozen 
and shipped between reports and therefore is not shown in the monthly 
reports. 
The reports showed that the largest stocks held at any one time 
during the year were in storage on January 1, 1918. Table 1 shows 
the holdings of that date segregated by geographical sections and a 
comparison of the stocks of January 1, 1918, with those of January 1, 
1917. This comparison is based on those storages that reported their 
holdings for both dates. 
