54 BULLETIN 1302, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Table 43. — Terminal grain marketing associations, 1923 
Association 
Date organized 
Mem- 
bers, 
1923 
Bushels 
grain, 1922 
crop 
Amount of 
business, 
1922-23 
Bushels 
grain, 1923 
crop 
Equity Cooperative Exchange, St. 
1908 2 
3 10,000 
1, 225 
40 
100 
* 1, 447, 600 
3, 780, 640 
5, 000, 000 
Paul, Minn. 1 
Fanners' Union Jobbing Associa- 
tion, Kansas City, Mo. 
Equity Union Grain Co., Kansas 
May. 10M 
1916 
3, 429, 780 
4,500,000 
1,500,000 
$4, 423, 636 
5, 000, 000 
1, 000, 000 
City, Mo. 
Farmers' Elevator Commission Co., 
July, 1919 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
Terminal Elevator Co., 
August, 1919 
City, Iowa. 1 
National Grain Commission Co., 
October, 1919 « 
April, 1921... 
October, 1922 
C9 
s 62, 980 
( 9 ) 
272, 000 
Omaha, Nebr. 
■ates Grain Growers (Inc.), 


go, 111. 7 
States Grain Growers Co., 
Minneapolis, Minn. 
1 In hands of recti i 
2 Incorporated Mar. 21, 1911. 
a Estii 
< 1 >oes not include grain handled on consignment. 
'• Reorganized January, 1923. Began business Aug. 1, 1923. 
ions, 
in operating December, 1923. 
1924. 
al stock purchased by the Montana Wheat Growers' Association and the Minnesota Wheat 
Growers' Cooperative Marketing Association. 
Table 44. — Creoimeries, estimated membership, and amount of business, by geo- 
graphic divisions 
Associations re- 
porting 
Estimated mem- 
bership, 1923 
Estimated amount of 
business, 1922 
Geographic division 
Number 
reporting 
For cent 
of total 
Number ' 
Per cent 
Amount 2 
Per cent 
778 
299 
56 
52 
38 
21 
19 
8 
2 
61.1 
23.5 
4.4 
4.1 
3.0 
1.6 
1.5 
.6 
.2 
122, 146 
48, 139 
4.138 
4,742 
11,457 
6,102 
4,104 
1,006 
68 
60.5 
23.8 
2.1 
2.4 
5.7 
3.0 
2.0 
.5 
3.0 
$72, 518, 936 
39, 474, 578 
4, 658, 920 
5, 868, 876 
14, 799, 784 
3, 204, 348 
2, 136, 930 
543,000 
147, 000 
50.6 
East North Central . . . . 
27.5 
3.3 
4.1 
10.3 
2.2 
1.5 
.4 
West South Central 
.1 
United States 
1,273 
100.0 
201, 902 
100.0 
143, 352, 372 
100.0 
LEADING STATES 
Minnesota 
Iowa 
Vermont.. 
510 
40.1 
67, 371 
33.4 
216 
17.0 
31, 492 
15.6 
212 
16.7 
30, 803 
15.3 
65 
5.1 
15, 294 
7.6 
35 
2.7 
3,643 
1.8 
$45, 466, 500 
21, 163, 464 
30, 356, 492 
7, 069, 530 
4, 723, 810 
31.9 
14.8 
21. 2 
5.0 
3.3 
1 The average number of members for the associations reporting membership in each State, multiplied 
by total number of associations credited to the. State, based on 1,173 reports regarding membership. 
2 The average amount of business for the associations reporting amount of business in each State muiti- 
Elied by the total number of associations credited to the State, based on 1,139 reports regarding amount of 
usiness. 
3 Less than one-tenth of 1 per cent. 
