COLD STORAGE REPORTS, 1917-1918. 
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There were large importations of frozen and dried eggs 
during the season. Table 33 shows the importations from 
June, 1916, to March, 1918, as compiled from the reports of 
the Department of Commerce. Figures previous to that date 
are not available. 
Table 33.- — Monthly importations of frozen and dried eggs and yolks 
of eggs. 
Month. 
1916-1917. 
1917-1918. 
I 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
1,053,774 
May 
1,022,371 
June 
1,332,584 
July : 
513,583 
349,585 
1,079,210 
1,392,714 
261,907 
129,850 
820,078 
500,375 
1,861,743 
1,101,327 
' 2,555,800 
2,033,528 
1,187,447 
1,483,669 
1,315,683 
" 606,384 
502,191 
March , 
1,450,494 
8,770,788 
8,770,788 
12,365,523 
15,645,252 
REVIEW OF REPORTS ON COLD STORAGE HOLDINGS OF 
FROZEN POULTRY. 
The Bureau of Markets began securing reports showing the 
holdings of frozen poultry in cold storage on May 1, 1917. 
The reports show this product segregated into five different 
classifications, viz., broilers, roasters, fowls, turkeys, and mis- 
cellaneous poultry. The first four varieties are segregated 
according to classifications generally used by the trade and 
all others are classified as miscellaneous. 
The reports received for several months were rather unsat- 
isfactory owing to the difficulties encountered by the cold 
storage warehouses in segregating the poultry held into these 
different classifications. During this period the holdings of 
the storages that were unable to segregate were also included 
with miscellaneous poultry. Table 34 shows the number of 
pounds of each variety reported monthly to the Bureau from 
July, 1917, to June, 1918, inclusive, and figure 12 shows the 
comparative percentage that each variety is of the total 
amounts reported each month for the season of 1917-1918. 
For the first half of the season these percentages are of value 
only in showing the progress made in securing the proper 
segregations. In -the latter part of the season they show the 
actual percentages of the different varieties stored as the 
segregations were then satisfactorily made by practically all 
of the cold storage warehouses. 
