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BULLETIN 7 7 6. U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
More than 45 per cent of the total holdings on August 1, 
1917, was stored in the cities of Chicago, New York, Boston 
and St. Louis. Chicago held the largest amount, 1,383,300 
cases, amounting to 21 per cent of the total. New York came 
next with 1,060.266 cases, Boston third with 435,439 cases, 
and St. Louis fourth with 125,331 cases. The movement into 
storage began first in the Western states. Nearly one-fourth 
of the holdings in the Western South section were in storage 
by April 1. By May 1 more than half of the holdings in that 
section and 35 per cent in the Western North section were 
stored. The holdings in the latter section reached their highest 
point on July 1. 
Table 24 shows the holdings as reported monthly compared 
with the holdings of the preceding month, and figure 7 shows 
graphically the holdings of each month compared with those 
of August 1 for the past two seasons and also for a ten-year 
average of the reports of the Associated Warehouses. 
Table 24. — Monthly and semi-monthly cold storage holdings of case eggs 
as compared with previous report. 
Date. 
Storages 
report- 
ing. 
Comparative holdings. 
Current 
report. 
Increase or decrease. 
Preceding 
report. 
April 1 
May 1 
May 15 
June 1 
June 15 
July 1 
August 1 . . . . 
September 1 . 
October 1 . . . . 
November 1 . 
November 15. 
December 1 . . 
December 15. 
January 1 . . . 
February 1 . . 
Number. 
293 
313 
332 
324 
311 
354 
326 
360 
392 
407 
388 
405 
411 
414 
408 
Cases. 
164,518 
1,818.703 
3,221,970 
4,481,827 
5,661,947 
6,105,570 
6,194,173 
5,893,404 
5,592,897 
4,429,888 
3,653,538 
2,799,012 
1,618,181 
988,228 
191,520 
Cases. 
5,280 
165,659 
1,848,073 
3.711.098 
4,446,940 
5,455,685 
6,036,576 
6,508,813 
5,975,875 
5,526,629 
4,420,374 
3,677,203 
2,259,724 
1,648,961 
1,179,950 
Cases. 
159,238 
1.653,044 
1,373,897 
770,729 
1,215,007 
649.885 
157.597 
615,813 
382.978 
1,096,741 
766,836 
878,191 
641.543 
660,733 
988.430 
Per cent. 
—3,015.9 
997.9 
74.3 
20.8 
27.3 
11.9 
2.6 
9.5 
6.4 
19.8 
17.3 
23.9 
28.4 
40.1 
83.8 
The comparative monthly movement to and from storage 
for the past two seasons is shown in Table 25 and also for an 
average of ten years as compiled from the reports of the Asso- 
ciated Warehouses for 1907 to 1916, inclusive. 
Table 25. — Monthly percentages of increases and decreases in holdings of 
cold storage eggs. 
Per cent, of increases. 
Per cent. 
of decreases. 
Mar. 
April May June 
July 
Aug. 
Sept. Oct. 
Nov. Dec. 
Jan. 
Feb. 
Assoc. Whse.l . 
1916-1917 
1917-1918 
11.1 
4.7 
2.8 
38.4 26.5 19.6 
36.3 37.3 16.7 
1 26.7 43.0 24.7 
4.4 
5.0 
2.8 
4.0 
10.3 
8.4 
10.3 18.3 
13.7 19.2 
8.4 16.4 
22.9 25.2 
23.1 19.2 
25.0 24.7 
14.0 
12.1 
15.0 
4.9 
1.7 
1.9 
1 Reports of Associated Warehouses, 1907 to 1916, inclusive. 
