Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 252, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1918 — Commercial Supply of Fats and Oils Other Than Retail Stocks in U. S. July 1, 1918 [ARTICLE]

Commercial Supply of Fats and Oils Other Than Retail Stocks in U. S. July 1, 1918

Stocks of fats and oils In commercial channels, other than retail stocks, an reported to the United States depart* ment of agriculture in the comprehensive food survey for July 1,1918, were as follows: Lard, 114,693,782 pounds; lard compounds (including substitutes other than purely * vegetable substitutes), 50,410,780 pounds; solid vegetable cooking fats, 42,636,551 pounds; oleo stock, oleo oil and edible tallow, 30,770,747 pounds; cottonseed oil, 41,718,674 gallons; olive oil, 901,995 gallens ; peanut oil, 4,839,931 gallons;" com oil, 2,891,457 gallons. The figures given above in<|iiSfe; stocks actually reported as on hand by manufacturers, storage houses and wholesale dealers, and also quantities reported as in transit from these stores. The stocks of retail dealers, as'reported for July 1,1918, are not included, -since these reports are still in process of being tabulated. In a similar survey made by the department for January 1, 1918, the retail stocks constituted the following percentages of fche total commercial stocks of the commodities here considered: Lard, 20.5 per cent; lard compounds, 38.3 per cent; solid vegetable cooking fats, 28.9 per cent; oleo stock, oleo oil and edible tallow, 2.2 per cent; cottonseed oil, 2.5 per cent; olive oil, 44.8 per cent; peanut oil, 4.8 per cent. In the case of lard and lard compounds, the stocks reported as on hand on July 1,1918, were slightly less than the corresponding stocks for July 1, 1917, the percentages being 96.3 and 98.4. respectively. The holdings of oleo stock, oleo oil and edible tallow were 87.8 per cent of those reported a year earlier. The greatest decrease is noted in the case of olive oil, where the holdings on July 1, 1918, were only 35.8 per cent of the holdings for July 1, 1917. In the case of the four remaining commodities, the stocks reported represent an increase over the corresponding stocks of a year earlier, the percentage of increase being as follows: Solid vegetable cooking fats, 14J5 per cent; cottonseed oil, 8.2 per cent; peanut oil, 194.8 per cent; corn oil, 56.6 per cent.