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bureau federations and state agricultural associations based 

 on the farm bureau or a similar plan/' an impetus was 

 given to the state federation movement, which, with the 

 definite help of the organization department of the na- 

 tional, has now resulted in the organization of state fed- 

 erations in all the states except Pennsylvania and South 

 Carolina. On September 1, 1921, forty-six states, excluding 

 the two states just named, had a total federated member- 

 ship of 967,279 farmers, or an average of 21,028 per state. 

 The largest number of members in any one state was 

 124,000 in Iowa, and the smallest number 466 in Nevada. 



The local county membership fees, a portion of which 

 constitute the means of financial support of the state fed- 

 erations, varied in 1921 from one dollar in Maine and 

 Utah and in many individual counties in other states, to 

 fifteen dollars in some counties in Kentucky. One state 

 has no fee but raises its funds by assessment. In two 

 states all the counties had a fee of one dollar. In six 

 states the fee varied in the counties from one to ten dol- 

 lars; in eight states from two to ten dollars, and in six 

 states from five to ten dollars. In nine states all the 

 counties have a uniform fee of five dollars and in fifteen 

 states of ten dollars. The tendency to date has been 

 toward a constantly larger fee. 



The proportion of this fee which goes to the state fed- 

 eration also varies widely. In general, it is from fifty 

 cents, as in New York, to five dollars, as in Illinois, with the 

 majority of the state federations collecting from one dollar 

 to two dollars and fifty cents for state and national dues. 

 For the first year or two many of the state federations 

 were financed by flat assessments per county member of 

 from ten to one hundred dollars per county, or a fee of 

 from ten to twenty-five cents per county member, "or such 

 part thereof as many be necessary. " This was found to 



