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BULLETIN 77 6, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
Table 16 shows the holdings as reported on September 1, 
1917, segregated by sections of the country and a comparison 
of the holdings of 55 storages with the amount held on Sep- 
tember 1, 1916, and table 17 shows the holdings of each month 
compared with those of the preceding month. 
Table 16. — Cold storage holdings of packing stock butter as reported on 
September 1, 1917. 
Reported for September 1, 1917. 
Comparison with October 1, 1916. 
Section. 
Storages 
reporting. 
Holdings 
reported. 
Percent- 
age of 
total 
holdings. 
Stor- 
ages 
report- 
ing on 
both 
dates. 
September 1, 
1916. 
September 1, _^ 
1917 'Decrease. 
j 
Number. 

6 
6 
25 
35 
9 
5 
3 
Pounds. 

135,769 
238,762 
749,562 
1,261,952 
56,713 
26,914 
61,543 
Per cent. 

5.4 
9.4 
29.6 
49.9 
2.2 
1.1 
2.4 
Number. 

2 
4 
16 
24 
5 
1 
3 
Pounds. 

243,800 
291,774 
1,455,536 
1.501,756 
71,890 
48,313 
82,005 
Pounds. 

83,400 
190,080 
516,936 
607,522 
29,298 
6,249 
Per cent. 

Middle Atlantic 
South Atlantic 
North Central (E) . . . . 
North Central (W) 
South Central 
Western (N) 
65.8 
34.9 
64.5 
59.5 
59.2 
87 1 
Western (S) 
61,543 j 25.0 
Total 
89 
2,531,215 
100.0 
55 
3,695,074 
1,495,028 ! 59.5 
Table 17. — Monthly cold storage holdings of packing stock butter com- 
pared with previous months. 
Date. 
October 1 . . . 
November 1 
December 1. 
January 1 . . 
February 1 . 
March 1 
Storages 
reporting. 
Comparative holdings. 
Deer 
Current 
Preceding 
jase. 
month. 
month. 
Number. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
Pounds. 
Per cent 
72 
1,622,720 
2,295,808 
673,088 
29.3 
98 
1,473,851 
2,373,940 
900,089 
37.9 
108 
1,661,496 
1,751.900 
90,404 
5.2 
110 
1,443,466 
1,865,618 
422,152 
22.6 
114 
1.358,179 
1,578,784 
220,605 
14.0 
130 
857,831 
1,535,997 
678,166 
44.2 
No reports were received showing the movement of packing 
stock butter into storage. The holdings decreased during the 
months of September and October but increased during No- 
vember. Decreases were again shown in December, January 
and February, and on March 1 the holdings amounted to 22.2 
per cent of the amount stored on September 1. Figure 5 shows 
graphically comparative monthly holdings from September to 
March, inclusive. 
REVIEW OF THE 1917-1918 SEASON FOR COLD STORAGE OF 
AMERICAN CHEESE. 
The reports of the Bureau of Markets show that an excep- 
tionally large quantity of American cheese was placed in cold 
storage during the 1917-1918 season. The reports from 464 
cold storage plants showed holdings of 92,449,996 pounds on 
October 1, 1917. As all the cold storage warehouses did not 
report their holdings on that date, this amount did not include 
all the stock. A careful estimate based on the holdings of 
other months by the remaining storages shows that the total 
