FABMERS COOPERATIVE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS 3 
co function. As a result of a sifting process, extending over two 
years, and a continuous search for new associations, in March, 1924, 
the department files contained information regarding 10,160 active 
FIGURES IN STATES REPRESENT 
HUNDRED THOUSANDS OF DOLUVRS 
XNSUS DAT 
Fig. 3. — Sales by California farmers were greater than those by Minnesota and New York farmers com- 
bined. Most of the cooperative selling was done by the farmers in the North Central, the Middle Atlan- 
tic, and the Pacific States. (See Table 5.) 
PURCHASES BY FARMERS THROUGH 
COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS, I 
■20 AGRlCUirwfVkLCENSUS DATA 
Fig. 4.— Kansas farmers made heavier purchases through cooperative associations than the farmers of any 
other State; Nebraska came close on the heels of Kansas and Iowa followed Nebraska. (See Table 5.) 
organizations. These data, classified and tabulated, fill a majority 
of the following pages. 
The character of the agricultural cooperative movement has been 
undergoing a change since about 1920. Prior to that year farmers' 
business organizations were mostly local enterprises with occasional 
