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264,000; the Pacific states, 164,000; the Middle 

 Atlantic states, 140,000; the mountain states, 66,000; 

 and the north Atlantic states, only 55,000. 



The geographical distribution of cooperative asso- 

 ciations and the extent of the business conducted 

 by them are indicated somewhat by the member- 

 ship of the National Council of Farmers' Coopera- 

 tive Marketing Associations. There are thirty-three 

 associations affiliated with the National Council. 

 These include such organizations as the Arkansas 

 Rice Growers' Cooperative Association, the Atlantic 

 Coast Poultry Producers' Association, the Burley 

 Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association, the 

 California Prune and Apricot Growers' Association, 

 the Florida Citrus Exchange, the Georgia Peanut 

 Growers' Cooperative Association, the Maine Potato 

 Growers' Association, the Pacific Cooperative Wool 

 Growers, the Sowega Melon Growers' Exchange in 

 Georgia, the Texas Farm Bureau Cotton Associa- 

 tion, and the Texas Wheat Growers' Association. 

 There are more than 600,000 farm producers iden- 

 tified with the thirty-three cooperative associations 

 which are affiliated with the National Council of 

 Farmers' Cooperative Marketing Association. As 

 indicated by the location of these associations and 

 the products that are being marketed by them, this 

 movement is nation-wide. They are in more or less 

 successful operation from Texas to Maine, and from 

 the Pacific coast to the Atlantic seaboard. 



The geographical distribution and the extent of 



