REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 
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crease from the 1st to the 15th of that month. The distribution is 
quite evenly divided among the months of September to May, inclu- 
sive. It ranged from 18.6 per cent in November to 3.2 per cent in 
April. At the end of the season, on May 1, 1917, about 2J per cent 
of the season's holdings still remained in storage, making a carry- 
over of twice the amount of the previous season. 
Table 4. — Monthly cold-storage holdings of creamery butter during the season 
of 1916 and 1917, and comparisons with holdings of preceding months. 
Date. 
Storages 
reporting. 
Comparative holdings. 
Current 
month. 
Preceding 
month. 
Increase or decrease. 
June 1, 1916. 
July 1, 1916. 
Aug. 1,1916 
Sept. 1, 1916 
Oct. 1, 1916. 
Nov. 1, 1916 
Dec. 1, 1916. 
Jan. 1,1917. 
Feb. 1, 1917. 
Mar. 1, 1917. 
Apr. 1, 1917. 
May 1, 1917. 
173 
173 
184 
233 
251 
303 
293 
248 
249 
257 
265 
252 
6,760,071 
52,576,210 
98, 132, 744 
104,950,786 
97,092,876 
83,248,135 
64,632,056 
42,787,367 
29,982,089 
15,467,475 
6,208,763 
2,553,912 
1,064,464 
6,782,641 
52,816,057 
101,606,527 
105,285,506 
98, 758, 024 
83,687,857 
60,377,710 
45,753,022 
29,808,296 
15, 679, 464 
6,046,958 
Pounds. 
+ 5,695,607 
+45,793,569 
+45,316,687 
+ 3,344,259 
- 8,192,630 
-15,509,889 
-19,055,801 
-17,590,343 
-15,770,933 
-14,340,821 
- 9,470,701 
- 3,493,046 
Per cent. 
+535. 1 
+675.2 
+ 85.8 
+ 
3.3 
7.8 
15.7 
22.8 
29.1 
34.5 
48.1 
60.4 
57.8 
The cold-storage holdings of packing-stock butter for December 
1, 1917, are shown in Table No. 5, which also shows the relative 
amounts stored in each section. The distribution of this class of 
butter was radically different from that of creamery butter. The 
New England storages, which held almost one-fourth of the creamery 
butter, carried practically no packing-stock butter. The South At- 
lantic section, having only 1\ per cent of the creamery butter, carried 
almost one-fifth of the packing stock. The holdings of December 1, 
1917, amounted to about three-fourths of the holdings of the previous 
year. The amount in storage on December 1 was approximately 
one-third of the total amount stored for the season. 
Table 5. — Gold-storage holdings of packing-stock butter as reported on 
Dec. 1, 1917. 
Total holdings Dec. 1, 1917. 
Comparison with 1916. 
Section. 
Storages 
report- 
ing. 
Pounds. 
Percent- 
age in 
each 
section. 
Storages 
report- 
ing. 
Dec. 1, 
1916. 
Dec. 1, 
1917. 
Increase 
or 
decrease. 
2 
17 
12 
34 
38 
18 
8 
6 
360 
302,934 
423, 575 
690, 856 
598, 112 
161, 238 
55, 674 
93,. 174 
0.0 
13.0 
18.2 
29.8 
25.7 
6.9 
2.4 
4.0 
1 
12 
9 
27 
33 
11 
4. 
4 
Pounds. 
50 
550, 513 
141,687 
541,664 
973, 667 
17, 555 
12, 670 
46, 171 
Pounds. 
360 
290, 363 
368,301 
463, 918 
275, 273 
146, 131 
46, 326 
81, 226 
Per cent. 
+620. 
Middle Atlantic 
- 47.3 
+159.9 
North Central (east) 
North Central (west) 
South Central .• 
- 14.4 
- 71.7 
+732.4 
Western (north) 
+265. 6 
+ 75.9 
Total, 
135 
2,325,923 
100.0 
101 
2,283,977 
1,671,898 
- 26.8 
. 
