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BULLETIN 709, U. S. DEPAETMEXT OF AGRICULTURE. 
REVIEW OF THE 1916-17 COLD-STORAGE SEASON FOR AMERICAN 
CHEESE. 
The Bureau of Markets began issuing reports on American cheese 
on September 1, 1916. This month's holdings represented practically 
the total quantities stored by the 290 storages which reported. They 
showed a total stock of 45,069,014 pounds, which was about 3 per cent 
less than the quantity stored in the previous season. However, this 
was the first report issued by the bureau regarding the stocks of this 
product, and the cooperation of all the cold-storage warehouses had 
not yet been secured ; therefore this percentage may not be as accurate 
as the percentages secured in later reports.. 
The accompanying tabulation (Table 6) shows the holdings of 
September 1, segregated by sections, and the percentage of the hold- 
ings that were stored in each section. It will be observed that the 
Middle Atlantic States held 33.5 per cent of the total holdings. This 
section includes the great producing district of New York State and 
the holdings of the great distributing center of New York City. The 
producing district in the States of Wisconsin and Minnesota is divided 
between the sections of North Central east of the Mississippi Eiver 
and North Central west of the Mississippi. The great difference 
between the holdings of these two sections is accounted for by the 
quantity held in Chicago, as the warehouses in that city held 16.T per 
cent of the total holdings. 
Table 6. — Cold-storage holdings of American cheese as reported on Sept. 1, 1916. 
Section. 
Storages 
reporting. 
Pounds. 
Percent- 
age in each 
section. 
New England 
Middle \tlantic 
24 
68 
39 
33 
19 
27 
5,368,958 
19, 619, 604 
2,090.844 
9. 348; 859 
3'. ill, 458 
523, 411 
917, 671 
4,088,149 
11.9 
43.5 
4.6 
20.8 
6.9 
Sou f h Central 
1.2 
Western (north) 
2.0 
9.1 
Total 
2S0 
45, 069, 014 
100.0 
The accompanying chart (fig. 8) shows the relative holdings on the 
first of each month during the season, using 100 per cent as the base 
representing the holdings of September 1. It shows that the cheese 
was placed in storage during the months of May, June, July, and 
August. More was stored during July than in any other month, 
about 40 per cent of the season's total holdings being placed in storage 
during that month. One- fourth of the holdings was stored during 
June and one-eighth during the month of August. The distribution 
of the stock extended over the months of "September to April, inclusive, 
