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BULLETIN 7 76, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 45. — Monthly cold storage holdings of miscellaneous poultry for 
season 1917-1918 as compared with previous months. 
Date. 
Storages 
report- j 
ing. 
Comparative holdings. 
Current 
month. 
Preceding 
month. 
Increase or 
iecrease. 
Pounds. 
Per cent. 
— 4,129.250 
— 10.4 
— 3,081,887 
— 8.8 
— 7.580,940 
— 18.8 
— 804,569 
— 2.4 
— 2SS.530 
— 3.6 
- 3,459,207 
+ 23.4 
— 4.328,041 
— 21.9 
— 17.1 
— 2,584,429 
— 3,232.631 
— 25.0 
— 3,718,846 
— 42.8 
— 545.417 
— 11.0 
4- 1.169,491 
4- 25.4 
Number 
August 1 153 
September 1 153 
October 1 .' 171 
November 1 190 
December 1 190 
Januarv 211 
Februarv 1 224 
March 1 235 
April 1 243 
Mav 1 238 
June 1 242 
Julv 1 235 
Pounds. 
35,602,249 
31,995,244 
32,729,238 
32,421,891 
7,816,416 
18,239,448 
15,439,245 
12,566,909 
9,672,387 . 
4,975,171 
4,429.679 
5,781,039 I 
Pounds. 
39,731,499 
35,077,131 
40,310,178 
33,226,460 
8,104,946 
14,780,241 
19,767,286 
15,151,338 
12,905,018 
8,694,017 
4,975.096 
4,611,548 
Table 46. — Monthly cold storage holdings of total frozen poultry for 
season 1917-1918 as compared with previous months. 
Date. 
Comparative holdings. 
Preceding 
month. 
Current 
month. 
Increase or decrease. 
August 1 . . . 
September 1 
October 1 . . . 
November 1 . 
December 1. 
January 1 . . 
February 1 . 
March 1 
April 1 
May 1 
June 1 
July 1 
Pounds. 
46.030.369 
42.624.775 
41.067.758 
44,725,103 
30,572,506 
58,734,249 
63,324,331 
55.450,334 
43,690,940 
23.401,548 
18,707,217 
17,880,593 
Pounds. 
53,855,714 
47,982,648 
51,003.429 
45,145,433 
27,488,437 
45,400,035 
62,605,289 
66,958,837 
56,747,788 
42,526,908 
26,518,037 
18,865,994 
Pounds. 
- 7.825.345 — 
- 5.357.S73 — 
- 9,935.671 — 
- 420,330 — 
3,0S4,069 4- 
13,33-1.214 - 
719,042 — 
-11, SOS. 503 — 
-13,056.8 48 — 
-16,125,360 — 
- 7.S10.S20 — 
- 985,401 I— 
Per cent. 
14.5 
11.2 
19.5 
0.9 
11.2 
29.4 
1.1 
17.2 
23.0 
37.9 
29.5 
Tables 47 to 52, inclusive, show the same data for the sea- 
son of 1916-1917. As previously stated, on account of the 
lack of reports from many warehouses these figures are very 
incomplete. 
Table 47. — Monthly cold storage holdings of broilers for season 1916-1917 
as compared with previous months. 
Storages 
reporting. 
Comnaratn 
-e holdings. 
Date. 
Current 
month. 
Preceding 
month. 
Increase or decrease. 
Number. 
58 
49 
65 
81 
84 
86 
90 
105 
111 
113 
134 
135 
Pounds. 
317,135 
440.556 
1,099.604 
2,007,799 
3,135.704 
3,720,338 
3,903,888 
4,301,277 
3.143,788 
3,429,852 
4,387,479 
4,237.654 
Pounds. 
178.571 
243,166 
661,589 
1.272.953 
2,112,296 
3.376,080 
4.177,467 
4.146,388 
4,337,197 
3,562,298 
5,104.412 
4.940.446 
Pounds. 
- 138.564 
4- 197,390 
- 438.015 
- 734,846 
- 1,023,408 
- 344,258 
- 273.570 
- 154,889 
- 1,193,409 
- 132.446 
- 716,933 
- 702,792 
Per cent. 
— 77 6 
+ 81 2 
-f 66.2 
4-57.7 
+ 48.5 
January 1 
+ 10.2 
— 6.5 
4- 3.7 
\pril l 
— 27.5 
Mav 1 
— 3.7 
— 14.0 
Jul: 1 
— 14 2 
