REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 
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Table 9. — Monthly cold-storage holdings of case eggs during the season 1916 
and 1917. and comparison icith holdings of preceding month. 
Month. 
Storages 
reporting. 
Comparative holding 
Current 
month. 
Preceding 
month. 
Increase or decrease. 
April 1, 1916 
May 1, 1916. 
June 1, 1916. 
Julv 1, 1916. 
Aug. 1,1910. 
Sept. 1, 1916 
Oct. 1,1916. 
Nov. 1,1916. 
Bee. 1, 1916. 
Jan. 1,1917. 
Feb. 1, 1917. 
March 1, 191 
212 
233 
236 
224 
235 
296 
325 
364 
374 
272 
264 
260 
1S2, 706 
2,269,851 
4,493,350 
5,440,704 
5, 652, 571 
5,437,412 
4,751,7S8 
3, 577, 956 
2, 108, 969 
896,826 
146, 141 
4,100 
34,439 
261,257 
353,332 
485,255 
370, 530 
064, 623 
607, 562 
789,945 
543,636 
089, 344 
897,642 
144,257 
Cases. 
+ 14S,267 
+2, 008. 594 
+2, 140) 018 
+ '955,449 
+ 282, 041 
- 627, 211 
- 855,774 
-1,211,989 
-1,434,667 
-1,192,518 
- 751,501 
- 140,157 
Per cent. 
+430. 5 
4- 70S. 8 
+ 90.9 
+ 21.3 
+ 5.3 
- 10. 3 
- 15.3 
- 25.3 
- 40.5 
- 57. 1 
- 13.7 
- 97: 2 
Table 9 shows the monthly increase and decrease throughout 
season, and figure 9 shows graphically the relative holdings on the 
first of each month, from April 1, 1916, to March 1, 1917. The solid 
portions of the diagram show the holdings on the first of the month, 
while the hatched portions under May and June show the increase 
from the 1st to the 15th of these months. All but about 10 per cent 
of the holdings were stored during April, May, and June, and prac- 
tically all that were stored after June 15 were removed from storage 
before the 1st of September. Five per cent of the total holdings was 
already in storage on April 1. The monthly decreases of the season's 
total holdings were as follows: 
Per cent. 
August 10. 3 
September 13. 7 
October _ 19. 2 
November 23. 1 
Per cent. 
December 19. 2 
January 12, 1 
February 1. 7 
A little more than one-tenth of 1 per cent still remained in storage 
on March 1, 1917. 
Table 10. — Cold-storage holdings of frozen 
as reported o;i Sept. 1, 1917. 
Total holdings, Sept. 1, 1917. i Comparison with 1916. 
Section. 
Storages 
report- 
ing. 
Pounds. 
Percent- 
age in 
each 
section. 
Storages 
report- 
ing. 
Sept. 1, 
1916. 
Sept. 1, 
1917. 
or de- 
crease. 
Nevr England 
7 
28 
7 
36 
40 
12 
9 
9 
102, 066 
7, 899, 779 
148, 162 
4,137,173 
3,787,404 
122, 176 
266. 672 
545, 143 
0.6 
46.4 
.9 
24.3 
22.3 
.7 
1.6 
5 
12 
Pounds. 
55, 595 
1, 4S1, 0S3 
Pounds. 
59,116 
7,365,S36 
-f- 6-3 
Middle Atlantic 
— 397.3 
South Atlantic 
North Central (east) 
North Central (west) 
South Central 
24 
30 
8 
2,372,730 
999,437 
14,083 
140, 059 
160, 499 
3,17^,399 
3, 436; 913 
50, S56 
90, 176 
527, 045 
- 31.0 
+271.2 
Western (north) 
— 35.6 
Western (south) 
3.2 i 6 
1 
Total 
148 
17, 00S, 575 
100.0 
91 
5,223,486 
14, 70S, 351 
+1S1.6 
