FARMERS COOPERATIVE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS 59 
Table 53. — Livestock marketing associations reporting amount of business, by 
leading States, 1923 
State and rank 
Number 
of asso- 
eiations 
reporting 
N umber 
reporting 
amount of 
business, 
1922 
Amount of 
business, 
1922 
Average 
amount of 
business per 
association 
334 
300 
154 
144 
107 
95 
93 
82 
74 
215 
98 
117 
34 
43 
11 
12 
25 
23 
16 
32 
Thousands 
$14,931 
10, 249 
3, 756 
4,855 
705 
1,030 
1,251 
1,998 
3, 938 
Thousands 
88 
110 
113 
64 
86 
50 
87 
9 Ohio .- - 
221 
123 
Total — 
1,598 
411 
46, 251 
113 
Table 54. — Terminal livestock selling agencies, by cities, 192J+ 
Market 
Chicago 
East St. Louis. 
South St. Paul- 
Indianapolis - . . 
St. Joseph, Mo. 
Kansas Gity... 
Omaha 
Buffalo 
Sioux City 
Detroit 
Fort Worth 
Cleveland 
Peoria 
Milwaukee 
Denver 
Pittsburgh 
Sioux Falls 
Evansville, Ind 
Oklahoma City 
Lexington, Ky. 
Total 
Number 
of agen- 
cies 
Number 
of cars 
handled 
1923 
22, 190 
24,205 
23, 988 
12, 822 
12, 529 
13,241 
10, 177 
5,078 
6,015 
4,654 
4,082 
2,650 
2, 1 Hi 
2, 264 
1,537 
675 
520 
443 
406 
Number of 
animals 
1923 
1, 473, 886 
1, 891, 969 
1, 616, 345 
909, 032 
849, 666 
7 266, 438 
(524, 333 
562, 511 
365, 167 
376, 356 
181, 228 
252, 476 
144, 250 
155, 529 
115, 328 
32, 275 
19, 206 
149, 592 9, 939, 512 
Total sales 
1923 
$31, 441, 346 
30, 930, 854 
29, 168, 446 
15,748,151 
15, 410, 814 
16,232,835 
13,251,897 
11,027,480 
7,611 
7,000 
4. 1 
3,842,718 
2, 5:: 
2,131,187 
1,68 
1. 02 
591,633 
351, 080 
266, 988 
194,294,967 
1 One began operating Mar. 5, 1923. 
2 Began May 15, 1923. 
3 Began operating Oct. 8, 1923. 
i Began operating May 3, 1923. 
J Began operating Sept. 1, 1923. 
ii operating July 2, 1923. 
7 Only tworepori ' 
8 Began operating Feb. 19, 1924. 
