28 BULLETIN 709, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTTJEE. 
total holdings, the South Atlantic section having only one-tenth 
of 1 per cent. Only 13.7 per cent of the holdings of dry salt pork 
was stored outside of the North Central sections, nearly half of the 
total holdings being stored in the North Central East section. The 
holdings of sweet pickled pork were distributed in approximately 
the same proportions, a little more being stored in the New England 
and the Middle Atlantic sections. Approximately 73 per cent of 
the lard was stored in the North Central sections and 12.6 per cent 
in the New England section. The balance of the holdings was 
very evenly distributed among the other sections excepting the 
Middle Atlantic section, which held 7 per cent. A much larger 
proportion, 24.2 per cent, of the holdings of frozen lamb and mutton 
was held in the Middle Atlantic States; 60 per cent was stored in 
the North Central States, 6.3 per cent in the New England States, 
and 7.3 per cent in the South Central States. No firms in the South 
Atlantic States reported any holdings of frozen lamb and mutton 
on January 1, either for 1916 or 1917. 
Table 17. — Cold-storage holdings of frozen lamb and mutton as reported on 
January 1, 1917. 
Total holdings, Jan. 1, 1917. 
Comparison with 1916. 
Section. 
Storages 
reporting. 
Pounds. 
Percent- 
age in 
each sec- 
tion. 
Storages 
reporting. 
Jan. 1,1916. 
Jan. 1, 1917. 
Increase 
or de- 
crease. 
8 
34 
346,497 
1,323,754 
6.3 
24.2 
5 
26 
Pounds. 
284, 611 
1,748,499 
Pounds. 
300,497 
1,184,460 
Per cent. 
+ 5.6 
— 32.3 
North Central (East) 
North Central (West). 
18 
19 
8 
4 
11 
2,214,763 
1,089,515 
399; 271 
77, 464 
47,993 
40.2 
19.8 
7.3 
1.4 
.8 
16 
18 
7 
2 
10 
2,237,492 
408, 166 
118, 833 
34, 000 
143,927 
2.088,763 
i; 089, 465 
398, 821 
75, 529 
47,697 
+ 6.6 
+166.9 
+235.6 
Western (North) 
+122.1 
Western (South). ......... 
— 66.9 
Total 
102 
5, 505, 257 
100.0 
84 
4, 975, 528 
5,185,232 1 -4-4.2 
Figures 10 to 16, inclusive, show the relative holdings on the 1st 
of each mcnth during the year of 1917, and figures 17 to 23, inclusive, 
show the comparative holdings of the years 1916 and 1917. 
The division between the holdings of each season is not nearly so 
clearly defined in the meat-storage reports as it is in the reports of 
the other commodities. The holdings of frozen beef reached their 
lowest point on June 1, when 39.8 per cent of the December 1 hold- 
ings were stored. On August 1, 63.9 per cent of the January 1 hold- 
ings were still in storage. The holdings of frozen pork reached a 
lower point than any of the other meat products, 27.5 per cent of 
the holdings of August 1 being held on December 1. Dry salt pork 
dropped down to 45.9 per cent and sweet pickled pork to 17.2 per 
cent on November 1. The lard holdings had a very rapid movement 
