Source: National Bureau of Economic Research  

Release: NBER Macrohistory Database  

Units:  Millions of Pounds of Lard, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly, End of Month

Series Is Presented Here As Four Variables--(1)--Original Data, 1915-1952 (2)--Original, 1946-1954 (3)--Original, 1949-1954 (4)--Seasonally Adjusted, 1916-1930. Stocks Are Reported As Of The First Of The Month; Used Here As Representing The Last Day Of The Preceding Month. Lard Includes All Prime Steam, Kettle-Rendered, Neutral, And Other Pure Lards In Public Warehouses And Packing Plants. It Does Not Include Lard Substitutes Or Lard Compounds. No Cold-Storage Reports For Lard Are Available After December 1952 (See The Cold-Storage Report For February 1953, P. 16). Source: U.S. Department Of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, "Livestock, Meats, And Wook Market Statistics And Related Data, " 1939, P. 43 And Later Issues Through 1952 (Since 1946 Called"Livestock Market News Statistics And Related Data" ); Data For December 1952 Are From"Cold-Storage Report, " February 1953; See Also The Survey Of Current Business, U.S. Department Of Commerce, For Data Beginning December 1939.

This NBER data series m05081a appears on the NBER website in Chapter 5 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter05.html.

NBER Indicator: m05081a