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BULLETIN 776, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
It will be observed both in the table and in the chart that 
the movement from cold storage was exceptionally slow. The 
decrease of 14.9 per cent in January, 1918, compared with 
the decrease of 23.0 per cent during January, 1917, is espe- 
cially noticeable. In this connection a comparison of the ex- 
ports of cheese for the two years as shown in Table 21 is very 
interesting. 
Table 21. — Monthly exports of cheese as shown by the reports of the 
Department of Commerce. 
Month. 
1916-1917. 
1917-1918. 
October ' 
Pounds. 
5,970.313 
3,644,915 
4,036,169 
8,101,103 
7.241,648 
7,576,682 
5,283,007 
41,853,837 
Pounds. 
464,967 
744,419 
1,271,741 
778,583 
921,244 
2,669,003 
1,234,925 
8,084,882 
" 
Total 
The comparatively small quantity exported no doubt partly 
accounts fpr the slow movement from storage. On April 1 a 
quantity equal to 40.6 per cent of the holdings on October 1 
was still in cold storage as compared with the 18.5 per cent 
of October 1, 1916, holdings held on April 1 of the previous 
season. The holdings decreased more than fourteen million 
pounds during April as compared with a decrease of about 
one and one-half million during April 1917. There still re- 
mained, however, a stock of 24,241,545 pounds on May 1. 
REVIEW OF THE 1917-1918 SEASON FOR COLD STORAGE OF 
CASE EGGS. 
The largest number of case eggs reported in cold storage at 
any one time during the season was 6,602,711 cases as reported 
by 403 warehouses on August 1, 1917. This was 0.7 per cent 
more than was stored on the same date of the previous season. 
Table 23 shows the total holdings of that date segregated by 
sections and a comparison of the holdings with those of the 
previous year. 
Table 23. Cold storage holdings of case eggs as reported on 
August 1, 1917. 
Reported for August 1, 1917. 
Section. 
Storages, 
report- 
ing. 
Holdings 
reported. 
Percent 
age of 
total 
holdings. 
Comparison with. August 1, 1916. 
Storages] 
reporting 
on both | 
dates. 
August 1, 
1916. 
August 1, 
1917. 
Increase 
! or 
decrease. 
Number. 
New England 24 
Middle Atlantic 77 
South Atlantic i 26 
North Centra] (E) i 77 
North Central (W) ! 76 
South Central 50 
Western (N) 34 
Western (S) 39 
Total 403 
Cases. 
Per cent. 
Number. 
809,324 
12.3 
15 
1,981,492 
30.0 
oo 
178,275. 
2.7 
16 
1,789,178 
27.1 
62 
1,168,990 
17.7 
70 
261,969 
4.0 
38 
92,899 
1.4 
22 
320,584 
4.8 
34 
Cases. 
569,542 
1,889.362 
74.299 
1.943.574 
1,0S2,026 
133.744 
70.2(12 
288,320 
Cases. 
682,595 
1,952.10? 
89,633 
1.712.707 
1,094,876 
182,045 
71,855 
316,439 
Per cent. 
19.8 
3.3 
20.6 
11.9 
1.2 
36.1 
9.3 
9.8 
6.602,711 100.0 
312 
6,060,129 
6.102.252 
0.7 
