COOPERATIVE PURCHASING AND MARKETING ORGANIZATIONS. 



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Table I. — Total number of farmers' organizations reporting for each class of business, 



by States — Continued. 





Total 

 number 

 report- 

 ing. 



Kind of business. 



State. 



Grain 



elevator 



and 



warehouse. 



Cream- 

 eries and 



cheese 

 factories. 



Fruit 



and 



produce. 



Cotton. 



Stores. 



Tobacco. 



Live 



stock. 



Miscel- 

 laneous. 





84 



505 



246 

 60 

 44 

 71 

 19 

 31 



127 



980 

 42 

 73 

 51 



282 



2 



8 



20 



13 



124 

 74 



313 

 97 

 48 

 85 

 66 

 4 

 37 



178 

 56 



134 

 31 

 23 

 58 



134 

 12 



402 

 16 



27 



228 



153 



1 



27 



204 



6 



6 



19 

 8 

 10 

 15 

 34 

 19 

 8 

 5 



31 

 28 

 26 

 34 

 7 

 7 











11 





3 



14 

 36 



6 





20 

 2 



31 







39 





21 



17 



Louisiana 



7 





1 



7 



1 



10 



70 



624 



5 







39 



Maryland 







10 



Massachusetts 





11 

 1 



11 



7 



30 



6 

 2 

 6 







5 





12 



241 





2 

 30 



1 



5 







27 





1 



4 





13 



27 

 183 



15 

 12 

 15 

 1 

 8 

 2 



3 







3 







25 



46 







1 



New Hampshire 



















9 

 3 



32 

 9 





4 







5 











10 



New York 





75 

 4 

 29 

 29 

 8 

 16 

 48 



10 



7 

 17 

 12 

 4 

 2 

 8 

 4 

 3 

 2 

 4 

 13 







10 



North Carolina 





5 



1 



2 

 1 

 2 



28 



North Dakota 



264 

 31 

 11 

 16 



6 



Ohio 



16 

 9 



40 

 4 



13 



7 



9 





3 







5 



Pennsylvania 



2 





8 





1 







1 



26 

 2 

 9 

 9 



22 

 8 



14 



7 



1 



18 



31 



12 



14 



7 

 71 



1 





12 





135 



12 





1 





15 





7 

 4 



16 



Utah 



1 







5 









1 







13 



. 52 



4 



24 





3 

 12 



1 

 32 



2 



5 



1 



28 





48 



8 



West Virginia 







7 



23 



8 



301 

 2 





7 

 1 



15 







3 













United States. . 



5,424 



1,637 



1,708 



871 



213 



275 



43 



96 



581 



Table II shows the type of organization, the annual volume of 

 business, and membership for the organizations reporting on these 

 points, arranged according to classes for each State, with a similar 

 arrangement for all classes for the entire United States. (See also 

 Charts 4 and 8.) So far as possible, the type of organization has been 

 indicated. Those that conduct their business as an ordinary stock 

 company have been placed in one class and those that operate on 

 a more truly cooperative basis have been placed in the other class. 

 This does not mean that all the associations in the last-named class 

 are organizations without capital stock; on the contrary, a large 

 number of them have capital stock because this is the common form 

 of organization among farmers' companies. An association can be 

 truly cooperative even though it is formed on the stock-company 

 plan. As has been stated, an effort was made to exclude all organi- 

 zations owned and operated for the benefit of a few stockholders. 

 Those with a large number of stockholders which appear to operate 

 principally for the benefit of the patrons have been included, even 

 though they are not strictly cooperative in nature. 



