COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS 301 



thereto being presented in the table on page 302 

 which is representative of the procedures of all now 

 active in California, both those of largest transac- 

 tions (all of which are included), and several of 

 smaller business dimensions. 



The attitude of the public mind toward producers 

 marketing organizations is seen in the fact that when 

 the legislature of 1915 created the office of State 

 Market Director and omitted from the prescription 

 of functions to this officer specific reference to the 

 organization of producers into marketing associa- 

 tions, the legislature of 1917 repealed that law and 

 enacted a new one in which the promotion of or- 

 ganization of such associations was made one of the 

 chief functions of the State Market Director. The 

 conviction seems to prevail widely throughout the 

 State that the achievements of such associations have 

 been for the public good and that their continued 

 and enlarged operation is one of the most important 

 factors not only in the advancement of rural life in 

 California but in the general development and pros- 

 perity of the State. 



OTHER AGRICULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS 



Special prominence has been given to organizations 

 of producers for product sale and distribution and 

 for manufacture or purchase of supplies and the like 

 used in production, because such organizations are 

 widely accepted as most distinctive and characteristic 

 of California. Another line is, however, hardly less 



