FARMERS ' COOPERATIVE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS 
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Table 87. — Litchfield Livestock Shipping Association, 1 Litchfield, Minn., 1908- 
1923 
[Compiled from annual reports of association] 
~ 
Year 
Cars 
Gross 
receipts 
Returns 
to farmers 
Per- 
centage 
Year 
Cars 
Gross 
receipts 
Returns 
to farmers 
Per- 
centage 
1908 
14 
35 
81 
104 
146 
153 
173 
172 
$11, 599 
39, 569 
102, 163 
114, 764 
181, 544 
218,116 
256, 044 
216, 518 
1916 
184 
175 
208 
217 
210 
185 
194 
236 
$284, 379 
389, 610 
552, 775 
625, 930 
436, 545 
272, 805 
298, 853 
294, 276 
1909 
1917 
$377, 005 
535, 496 
606, 432 
417, 462 
253, 1 1 5 
280, 789 
272, 966 
96.8 
1910 
1918 
96.9 
1911 
1919 
1920 
96.9 
1912 
95.6 
1913 
1921 
92.8 
1914 
1922 
94.0 
1915 
1923 
92.8 
A typical local livestock shipping association. 
Table 88. — Adams County Shippers' Association, 1 Quincy, III., 1919-1923 
[Data obtained from association] 
Year 
Number 
of cars 
Number 
of 
shippers 
Head of 
live- 
stock 
Amount 
received 
Local 
charges 
Net to 
producers 
1919 2 
101 
610 
795 
633 
689 
439 
3, 335 
4,946 
4,282 
4,360 
7,679 
44, 529 
59, 775 
47, 230 
53, 247 
$211, 640 
1, 200, 067 
1, 012, 051 
909, 379 
836,425 
$1, 409 
12, 637 
14, 535 
12, 102 
13, 943 
$210, 231 
1920 
1, 187, 430 
1921 
997, 516 
1922... 
897, 277 
1923 
822, 481 
1 A typical county livestock shipping association. 
2 September, October, November, and December. 
Table 89. — California Farm Bureau Marketing Association, Bakersfield, Calif., 
1919-1923 
[Compiled from data obtained from association] 
Year ending Oct. 1 
Number 
of 
auction 
sales 
Number 
of hogs 
Amount of 
sales 
1919 
139 
195 
181 
184 
39, 388 
51, 849 
44, 783 
43,204 
48, 721 
$1, 316, 072 
1920. 
1, 467, 834 
1921 
940, 256 
1922 _ 
754, 247 
1923 
716, 960 
Table 90. — Poultry Producers of Central California, Inc., San Francisco, Calif., 
1917-1922 
[Compiled from reports of association] 
Year 
Number 
of stock- 
holders 
Cases of 
eggs 
handled 
Receipts 
from sales 
Net 
returns to 
members 
Per cent 
returns of 
receipts 
1917 
213, 532 
270, 313 
228, 677 
460, 303 
662, 598 
618, 475 
$2, 382, 444 
3,712,523 
3, 055, 337 
6, 939, 542 
6, 905, 802 
2 5, 730, 000 
$2, 170, 626 
3,425.717 
2,814.7;;; 
91. 1 
1918 
1,000 
1,201 
2,193 
2,839 
3,159 
92.3 
19191 
92. 1 
1920 
1921 
1922... 
Report covers seven months only. 
2 Estimated. 
