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the business conducted by some of these associations 

 are illustrated by the following figures: 



The American Cranberry Exchange, which is one 

 of the oldest commodity marketing associations in 

 the country, did a business of $5,800,000 in 1922. 

 The Wisconsin Cheese Producers' Association sold 

 over 44,600,000 pounds of cheese in 1923. The Cali- 

 fornia Fruit Growers' Exchange, a world famous co- 

 operative organization, sold more than $55,000,000 

 worth of citrus fruit in 1923. And the Sun Maid 

 Raisin Growers of California handled for producers 

 159,262 tons of raisins in one year, with a gross sale 

 exceeding $43,000,000. The aggregate figures for 

 the nine cooperative cotton associations are not 

 available, but the business conducted by them has 

 been increasing rapidly since 1922, and today rep- 

 resents one of the largest financial business enter- 

 prises of modern times. 



There are seven relatively large associations 

 selling tobacco on a commodity basis. Six of these 

 organizations sold 602,000 pounds of tobacco in one 

 year, which represents a total business of $129,860,- 

 000. This is approximately half of the financial 

 value of the tobacco crop of the United States. 



The twenty-five cooperative live stock selling 

 associations did a business in 1923 which amounted 

 to $193,282,000. One of these organizations alone 

 conducted sales which totaled $24,500,000. 



The farm commodities about which the coopera- 

 tive marketing movements have centered include 



