varying from 3 to 23 per cent monthly. The month of April showed the most deliveries and the month of January the fewest.

On September 1, 1916, 273 storages reported 46,776,039 pounds.
That amount is taken as 100 per cent

Per cent.

100

in this diagram.

90

70

50

50

40

30

20

20

10

FIG. 8.

By April 1, the holdings had been reduced to 8,768,185 pounds, as reported by 347 firms. This was approximately 18 per cent of the season's total holdings. An additional decrease of 8 per cent occurred

during the month of April, leaving 15 per cent in storage on May 1. The percentages of decrease, however, in the latter part of the season do not represent actual deliveries. The reports as published by the Bureau of Markets showed the holdings on the 1st of each month, and at this time some of the new stock was no doubt being placed in storage before all of the old stock was removed. The percentages, therefore, merely show the net decrease during those months. Table 7 shows the holdings of each month compared with those of the preceding month throughout the season, as published in the monthly reports of the bureau.

TABLE 7.-Monthly cold-storage holdings of American cheese during the season of 1916 and 1917 and comparisons with holdings of preceding months.

REVIEW OF THE 1916-17 COLD-STORAGE SEASON FOR EGGS.

35. 3

36.2

17.1

The cold-storage holdings of eggs reached their highest point on August 1. The 312 cold storages that reported held 6,060,129 cases of eggs on that date. The seasoh's holdings were comparatively small, being only three-fourths as great as in the previous season. It should be considered, however, that an exceptionally large quantity was stored during the season of 1915-16. The distribution of the holdings is shown in Table 8. The warehouses in the Middle Atlantic and North Central sections held more than 80 per cent of the total. The major portion was held in the cities of New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago.

TABLE 8.-Cold-storage holdings of case eggs as reported on Aug. 1, 1916.

TABLE 9.-Monthly cold-storage holdings of case eggs during the season 1916 and 1917, and comparison with holdings of preceding month.

Table 9 shows the monthly increase and decrease throughout the season, and figure 9 shows graphically the relative holdings on the first of each month, from April 1, 1916, to March 1, 1917. The solid portions of the diagram show the holdings on the first of the month, while the hatched portions under May and June show the increase from the 1st to the 15th of these months. All but about 10 per cent of the holdings were stored during April, May, and June, and practically all that were stored after June 15 were removed from storage before the 1st of September. Five per cent of the total holdings was already in storage on April 1. The monthly decreases of the season's total holdings were as follows:

A little more than one-tenth of 1 per cent still remained in storage on March 1, 1917.

TABLE 10.-Cold-storage holdings of frozen eggs as reported on Sept. 1, 1917.

The bureau began issuing reports showing the holdings of frozen eggs on May 1, and the holdings of September 1 were larger than for

On August 1, 1916, 235 storages reported 5,652,571 cases.
That amount is taken as 100 per cent in this diagram.

any other month during the season. Table 10 shows the holdings for that date, segregated by sections and compared with those on the

same date in the previous season. This comparison, based on the holdings of 91 cold-storage plants, showed an increase of more than 180 per cent over the previous year's stocks. Two-thirds of the stock were stored in the Middle Atlantic and North Central sections. The holdings decreased during the months of September, October, and November, but increased during December. The monthly decreases as indicated in the reports showed a very slow movement. As this product is largely used by bakeries and confectioners, its use was probably curtailed by the shortage of sugar.

REVIEW OF THE 1917 COLD-STORAGE HOLDINGS OF FROZEN AND CURED MEATS AND LARD.

The reports of the Bureau of Markets for the year 1917 showed the holdings and movement of approximately a billion pounds of frozen and cured meats and of lard. The commodities reported were frozen. beef, pork, and lamb and mutton, cured beef, dry salt and sweet pickled pork, and lard. The maximum holdings during the year of the different commodities were as follows:

TABLE 11.-Cold-storage holdings of frozen beef as reported on Dec. 1, 1917.