Agricultural interests are foremost at the State Fairs. 



successful business organizations in the State. The Farmers' Co-operative 

 Association of Mercer County has proved the practicability -of a purely co- 

 operative, non-stock association for buying supplies and selling products. 

 Its business for the year 1919 exceeded half a million dollars. 



During the potato shipping season the Monmouth County Farmers' Ex- 

 change, with headquarters at Freehold, operates some thirty branch loading 

 stations throughout this famous farming section. It is the oldest and largest 

 farmers' business organization in New Jersey, with about fifteen hundred 

 stockholders. Mount Holly is the headquarters of the Burlington County 

 Supply and Produce Company ; and at Woodstown is the office of the South 

 Jersey Farmers' Exchange. These three organizations, located in the chief 

 potato sections, ship the great bulk of New Jersey's potato crop, and supply 

 their members with millions of dollars worth of seeds, fertilizers, feeds and 

 implements. 



The South Jersey Federation of Tomato Growers is especially active in 

 portions of Gloucester, Salem, and Cumberland Counties, and looks out for 

 the interests of its several hundred members. The Co-operative Growers' 



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