COLD STORAGE REPORTS, 1917-1918. 
15 
Relative monthly cold storage 
holdings of Packing Stock Butter for the 
season, of I317-I JlS.^ ■ .. 
O O <D 05 O «* 
O . 25 Q »"5 P4 S 
100 
90 
80 
70 
Go 
50 
40 
30 
20 
10 
amount on hand on October 1, 1917, was approximately 95,- 
000,000 pounds. On this date 31 per cent of the total stock 
was stored in New York State and 12.4 per cent in New York 
city. Wisconsin storages held 12.7 per cent while only 1.6 
per cent was stored in Minnesota. The largest quantity stored 
in any one city was 
held in Chicago, 
the holdings there 
amount to 19.8 per 
cent. Boston stor- 
ages held 6.5 per 
cent, San Francisco 
storages 2.9 per 
cent and less than 
1 per cent was held 
in Philadelphia. 
Table 18 shows 
the holdings of Oc- 
tober 1, 1917, seg- 
regated by sections 
and also a com- 
parison of the hold- 
ings of 301 storages 
on that date with 
the amount they 
held on September 
1 of the previous 
year. 
This comparison 
shows an increase 
of 52.4 per cent. 
The holdings of 
October 1, 1917, 
are compared with 
those of September 
1, 1916, as the stor- 
ing season con- 
tinued for a longer 
period in 1917 and 
the largest quan- 
tities reported dur- 
ing these seasons 
were held on those dates. The holdings of the 1916-1917 and 
1915-1916 seasons were approximately the same, there being 
a difference of less than one per cent. 
At the beginning of the season on May 1, 1917, there were 
almost 8,000,000 pounds already in storage. This quantity 
was no doubt partly a carry-over from the previous season and 
partly new stock going into storage very early. These hold- 
ings were increased by more than 2,000,000 pounds during the 
month of May. The bulk of the holdings, however, was placed 
in cold storage during the months of June, July and August, 
87.3 per cent of the total increases occurring in these months. 
Mill 
III 1 1 1 
I III II 
1 1 II till 
I III MM 
100 
90 
8o 
70 
6o 
50 
40 
30 
20 
10 
Fig. 5. 
