FARMERS COOPERATIVE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS 
13 
Average Number of Members for Associations Handling Tobacco, Cotton, and Pice for 1915 and 1924 
TOBACC 
1915 

t 
3 36 ■ 
1924 33.94-5 
COTTON 
1915 87 
1924 17. 657 
RICE 
191 5 
1924- 
821 
THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS 
PE1B ASSOCIATION 
15 20 
25 
30 
35 
r 
■ I 
Fig. 16. — About 1920 the State-wide or region-wide marketing: organizations appeared. In the tobacco, 
cotton, and rice producing sections this new type of association has largely replaced the local association 
which aimed to serve the farmers tributary to a single shipping point. (See Table 21.) 
Estimated Business of Associations in Leading States, 1922 
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 
Fig. 17. — The estimated amount of business was determined by multiplying the average amount of busi- 
ness for the associations reporting amount of business by the total number of associations credited to 
each State 
