UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

 BULLETIN No. 547 



Contribution from the Office of Markets and Rural Organization 

 CHARLES J. BRAND, Chief 



Washington, D. C. 



September 19, 1917 



COOPERATIVE PURCHASING AND MARKETING 



ORGANIZATIONS AMONG FARMERS IN 



THE UNITED STATES 



By 



O. B. JESNESS, Assistant in Cooperative Organization, and 

 W. H. KERR, Investigator in Market Business Practice 



CONTENTS 



Early History and Growth of Cooperative 



Organization 1 



Present Forms and Tendencies .... 3 



Statistics of Cooperation 11 



Cooperation in Representative States . . 37 

 Representative Types of Cooperative 



Organizations 41 



Financing and Business Practices ... 50 



Agencies Which Assist Cooperation . . 



Cooperative Laws 



Cooperative Law Summations . . . . 



Digest of State Cooperative Laws . . . 



The Clayton Amendment to the United 

 States Antitrust Laws 



Selected List of Publications on Cooper- 

 ative purchasing and Marketing . . . 



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