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1, based upon their holdings for other months, would increase 
this amount to approximately 108,750,000 pounds. 
Table 9 shows the total holdings of that date segregated by 
sections and a comparison of the holdings of 332 storages with 
the amounts they held on the same date of the previous season. 
Table 9. Cold storage holdings of creamery butter as reported on 
October 1, 1917. 
Reported for October 1, 1917. 
Comparison with October 1, 1916. 
Section. 
Stor- 
ages 
report- 
ing. 
Holdings 
reported. 
Percent- 
age of 
total 
holdings. 
Stor- 
ages 
report- 
ing on 
both 
dates. 
October 1, 
1916. 
October 1, 
1917. 
Increase 
or 
decrease. 
New England 
Middle Atlantic 
South Atlantic 
North Central (E) . . . . 
North Central (W) .... 
South Central 
Number. 
31 
97 
36 
70 
61 
41 
33 
35 
Pounds. 
24,670,458 
32,362,904 
2,094,113 
28,824,677 
11,899,834 
1,584,998 
1,807,300 
3,231,476 
Per cent. 
23.2 
30.3 
2.0 
27.1 
11.2 
1.5 
1.7 
3.0 
Number. 
27 
82 
24 
54 
56 
36 
26 
27 
Pounds. 
25.044,351 
30,883,321 
L475,272 
27,359.933 
8,915,165 
1,268,628 
1,930,854 
Pounds. 
22,802, 18S 
30,777,908 
1,630,806 
24,233,900 
11,571,681 
1,576.298 
1.649 556 
Per cent. 
— 9.0 
— 0.3 
+10.5 
—11.4 
+ 29.7 
+ 24.3 
— 14 6 
Western (3) 
3,644,049 1 3,214,539 —11.8 
Total 
404 
106,475,760 
100.0 
332 
100.521,573 '. 97,456,876 — 3 
This comparison, however, does not show the comparative 
amounts stored in the two seasons. The peak load of the 
1916-1917 season occurred on September 1, while in the 1917- 
1918 season the largest quantity was held on October 1. If we 
compare the holdings of the 275 storages reporting for these 
two dates they show 106,113,839 pounds on September 1, 
1916, and 94,712,624 pounds on October 1, 1917, a decrease 
of 11,401,215 pounds or 10.7 per cent. 
Figure 3 shows graphically the holdings of each month com- 
pared with those of October 1 for the seasons of 1916-1917, 
1917-1918 and a ten-year average of the reports of the Asso- 
ciated Warehouses. It will be observed both there and in 
table 10, which shows the monthly increases and decreases, 
that the greatest increases were made during June and July, 
72,538,825 pounds or approximately 78 per cent of the total 
holdings being stored during these months. 
Table 10. Monthly and semi-monthly cold storage holdings of creamery 
butter as compared with previous reports. 
- 
Storages 
reporting. 
Comparative holdings. 
Increase or 
Date. 
Current 
report. 
Preceding 
report. 
decrease. 
June 1 
June 15 
Julv 1 
Number. 
235 
254 
271 
241 
261 
294 
320 
357 
354 
337 
343 
357 
360 
Pounds. 
8,436,079 
22,581,838 
46,631,533 
64,525,601 
84,101,347 
98,683,757 
98,749,922 
98,886,972 
77,219,724 
46,956.949 
22.249,328 
18,034,428 
14,581,614 
Pounds. 
2,698,017 
8,507,640 
23,224,309 
47,497,334 
66,072.211 
86,235,920 
98,672,970 
105,253,730 
97,211,996 
74,711,024 
43,191,036 
26,160,246 
19,075,492 
Pounds. 
+ 5,738,062 
+ 14,074,198 
+ 23,407,224 
+ 17.028,267 
+ 18,029,136 
+ 12,447,837 
+ 76,952 
— 6,366,758 
—19,992,272 
—27,754,075 
—20,941,708 
— 8,125.818 
— 4,493.878 
Per cent. 
+ 212.7 
+ 165.4 
+ 100.8 
July 15 
+ 35.9 
+ 27.3 
September 1 
+ 14.4 
+ 0.1 
November 1 
— 6.0 
— 20.6 
January 1 
— 37.1 
— 48.5 
Marchl 
— 31.1 
April 1 
— 23.6 
