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BULLETIN 709, II. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Copies were also sent to a selected list of trade papers and other 
publications. 
As the work was extended to include other commodities, every 
effort was made to let the public know that the reports were available, 
free of cost, to anyone requesting them. Copies were sent to all deal- 
ers in these commodities in towns with a population of 25,000 or 
more and to a large list of producers. With the exception of the cold- 
storage warehouses, newspapers, trade publications, and certain Gov- 
ernment officials, no reports are sent except upon request. 
Approximately 75,000 copies of the reports for December, 1917, 
were mimeographed and mailed. Table 1 shows how they were 
distributed. 
Table 1. — Distribution of the storage reports of the Bureau of Markets on 
Dec. 1, 1917. 
Commodities. 
Apples 
Creamery butter. 
American cheese 
Case eggs 
Frozen eggs 
Frozen and cured meat 
Frozen poultry 
PacMng-stoek butter . . 
Frozen and cured fish . 
Total. . . 
news- 
papers. 
3,500 
3,500 
3,500 
3,500 
3, 500 
3,500 
3,500 
3,500 
3,500 
31,500 
Storagos. 
1,444 
1,444 
1,444 
1,444 
1,444 
1,444 
1,444 
1,414 
1,444 
12, 996 
Govern- 
ment 
officials. 
600 
600 
600 
600 
600 
600 
600 
600 
600 
5,400 
By request 
3,401 
3, 485 
2,707 
3,832 
3,832 
2,262 
1,705 
3,485 
18 
24,727 
Total 
8,945 
9,029 
8,251 
9,376 
9,376 
7,805 
7, 249 
9,029 
5,562 
74,623 
REVIEW OF THE 1916-17 STORAGE SEASON FOR APPLES. 
This season's reports began with a tabulation of the holdings in 352 
storages on October 15, 1916. They showed a stock of 919,117 
barrels and 1,062,564 boxes. This was 47.8 per cent less than was 
stored on October 15 of the previous season. Most of these hold- 
ings were probably stored after October 1 and amounted to more 
than one-third of the total quantity placed in storage during the 
season. By November 1 almost three-fourths of the holdings of 
the season had been stored. The balance of the holdings, with 
the exception of about 7 per cent, were stored before the 15th of 
November. 
The holdings of December 1 represented practically all the apples 
stored for the season. In the 450 storages reporting they amounted 
to 2,603,584 barrels and 3,913,290 boxes. Three boxes are equivalent 
to about one barrel in quantity, so these storages held approximately 
3,908,000 barrels. The boxed apples therefore represented one-third 
of the total holdings. In 1915 the boxed apples comprised one-fifth, 
and in 1914 one- fourth, of the total holdings. 
