REPORTS OF STORAGE HOLDINGS. 
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same date in the previous season. This comparison, based on the 
holdings of 91 cold-storage plants, showed an increase of more than 
180 per cent over the previous year's stocks. Two-thirds of the stock 
were stored in the Middle Atlantic and North Central sections. The 
holdings decreased during the months of September, October, and 
November, but increased during December. The monthly decreases 
as indicated in the reports showed a very slow movement. As this 
product is largely used by bakeries and confectioners, its use was 
probably curtailed by the shortage of sugar. 
REVIEW OF THE 1917 COLD-STORAGE HOLDINGS OF FROZEN AND 
CURED MEATS AND LARD. 
The reports of the Bureau of Markets for the year 1917 showed the 
holdings and movement of approximately a billion pounds of frozen 
and cured meats and of -lard. The commodities reported were frozen 
beef, pork, and lamb and mutton, cured beef, dry salt and sweet 
pickled pork, and lard. The maximum holdings during the year of 
the different commodities were as follows : 
Pounds. 
Frozen beef, December 1 277,284,941 
Cured beef, January 1 37, 301, 283 
Frozen pork, August 1 94, 119, 901 
Dry salt pork, March 1 : 249, 218, 917 
Sweet pickled pork, July 1 412,328,689 
Lard, August 1 111,943,383 
Larab and mutton, frozen, January 1 . 4, 885, 678 
Table 11. — Cold-storage holdings of frozen beef 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 de- 
crease. 
37 
79 
30 
75 
52 
29 
25 
34 
18,228,689 
41, 229, 183 
1,516,723 
147, 036, 771 
52, 053, 458 
6, 281, 454 
6, 420, 835 
4, 517, 828 
6.6 
14.9 
.6 
53.0 
18.8 
2.2 
2.3 
1.6 
26 
63 
25 
64 
46 
21 
22 
30 
Pounds. 
2, 681, 058 
34, 407, 083 
1,215,160 
83, 213', 567 
28, 926, 292 
4, 014, 663 
1, 7S0, 058 
1, 910, 123 
Pounds. 
5, 886, 771 
36 866,293 
1, 194, 098 
141,837,668 
47, 884, 209 
5,901,801 
4,383.245 
4, 469^ 464 
Per cent. 
+119.6 
Middle Atlantic 
+ 7.1 
South Atlantic 
— 1.7 
North Central (east) 
North Central (west) 
South Central 
+ 70.5 
+ 65.5 
+ 47.0 
Western (north ) 
+146.2 
Western (south) 
+134.0 
Total 
361 277.2S4.941 
100.0 
297 
158, 148, 004 
248,423,549 1 4-57.1 
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