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Table I. — Total number of farmers' organizations re-porting 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. 
Indiana 
84 
505 
246 
66 
44 
71 
19 
31 
127 
9S0 
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 
Iowa 
3" 
14 
36 
6 
20 
2 
31 
Kansas 
39 
21 
17 
Louisiana 
7 
Maine 
1 
7 
1 
10 
70 
624 
5 
39 
Maryland 
10 
Massachusetts 
...... 
1 
11 
30 
6* 
2 
6 
Michigan 
12 
241 
2 
30 
i" 
27 
Mississippi 
1 
4 
Missouri 
13 
27 
183 
15 
12 
15 
1 
8 
2 
3 
3 
Nebraska 
25 
48 
1 
New Hampshire 
9 
3 
32 
9 
4 
5 
10 
New York 
75 
4 
29 
29 
8 
16 
48 
io* 
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 
Oklahoma 
3 
2 
8 
1 
South Carolina 
1 
26 
2 
9 
9 
22 
8 
14 
7 
1 
18 
31 
12 
14 
71 
1 
12 
South Dakota 
135 
12 
1 
15 
4 
16 
Utah 
1 
1 
13 
52 
4 
24 
3 
12 
1 
32 
2 
5 
1 
28 
48 
8 
7 
23 
8 
301 
2 
1 
15 
3 
United States.. 
5,424 
1,637 
1.708 
871 
213 
275 
43 
96 
5S1 
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. 
