REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 
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month. The holdings were reduced 44.6 per cent in those months. 
The distribution of the barreled-apple stock began earlier in the sea- 
son than that of the boxed apples. The month of December showed 
a movement of 15 per cent of the former compared with one-tenth of 
1 per cent of the latter, a reduction of 10 per cent in the total holdings. 
By June 1 the holdings had been reduced to 163,806 barrels and 
221,122 boxes, or about 5 per cent of the total quantity stored. The 
percentage of the barreled apples remaining in storage was approxi- 
mately the same as the percentage of the boxed apples still held. 
There was a larger percentage left in storage on June 1 than hi the 
previous two seasons. June 1, 1916, showed 4.3 per cent left in storage 
and June 1, 1915, 1.9 per cent. 
REVIEW OF THE 1916-17 COLD-STORAGE SEASON FOR BUTTER. 
The largest holdings of creamery butter for this season were re- 
ported on September 1, 1916. The quantity in storage at that time 
represented practically the entire amount stored for the season by the 
warehouses reporting. The report covered 268 storages and showed 
a stock of 105,806,003 pounds. This was approximately the same 
quantity as was stored in the previous season, there being only a 
difference of two-thirds of 1 per cent. The accompanying tabulation 
(Table 3) shows the holdings on September 1, segregated by sections. 
Only a very small proportion, approximately 10 per cent, was stored 
outside of the New England, Middle Atlantic, and North Central 
States. Of the 29.4 per cent stored in the North Central section, east 
of the Mississippi River, 22.4 per cent was stored in the city of 
Chicago. 
Table 3. — Cold-storage holdings of creamery butter as reported on Sept. 1,1916. 
Section. 
Storages 
reporting. 
i J ounds. 
Percentage 
in each sec- 
tion. 
New England 
19 
55 
24 
46 
50 
25 
22 
27 
25, 90S. 623 
30,263^797 
1,429,666 
31,133,057 
9,132,755 
1,345,63S 
2,112,308 
4,510,159 
24.5 
Middle Atlantic 
28.6 
South Atlantic 
1.4 
North Central (east ) 
29.4 
North Central (west) " 
8.6 
South Central 
1.2 
2.0 
Western (south) 
4.3 
Total 
208 
105, £36, 003 
100.0 
Figure 7 shows the comparative holdings on the 1st of each month 
throughout the season. ' At the beginning of the season, on May 1/ 
there were a little more than a million pounds already in storage. 
This may be considered the carry-over from the preceding season 
and amounted to a little more than 1 per cent of the holdings of 
September 1.. All but 5 per cent of the season's total holdings were 
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