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i2 BULLETIN 1392,-U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
ARKANSAS COTTON GROWERS’ COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION 
On January 17, 1921, delegates from county farm bureaus met at 
Hope, Ark., for the purpose of forming the Arkansas Farm Bureau 
Federation. At this meeting approval was given to the plan of 
organizing a cooperative cotton-marketing association along the lines 
of the one then in process of organization in Oklahoma. Later, the 
executive committee of the newly formed State farm bureau called 
a mass meeting of cotton growers at Little Rock, March 22, 1921, 
at which the plan was formally adopted and an organization com- 
mittee named. 
The Arkansas Farm Bureau Federation sponsored the movement 
and assumed the leadership in the organization campaign. Under 
an arrangement somewhat similar to that previously adopted in 
Texas, no membership fee was required from farm bureau members. 
The minimum quantity of cotton to be obtained in the membership 
campaign was placed at 200,000 bales, on the basis of 1920 produc- 
tion, and the time limit specified in the marketing agreement was 
January 1, 1922. The contracts signed by that date by 5,500 growers 
represented 211,000 bales. The association was incorporated under 
the Arkansas cooperative marketing act on February 25, 1922. Head- 
quarters were established at Little Rock. 
The board of directors consists of 23 men, 20 being elected by 
the membership in the 20 established voting districts, and 3 being 
appointed, one each by the governor of the State, the dean of the 
college of agriculture, and the commissioner of the State depart- 
ment of mines, manufactures, and agriculture. 
Following the organization of similar associations in Tennessee 
and Missouri in 1923, and in Illinois in 1924, the Arkansas associa- 
tion entered into an agreement whereby it became the sales organiza- 
tion, on an actual cost basis, of these three relatively small associa- 
tions. 
SOUTH CAROLINA COTTON GROWERS’ COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION 
A number of regional meetings were held in South Carolina in 
April, 1921, for the purpose of discussing cooperative marketing 
and of interesting farmers in the organization activities in other 
cotton-producing States. At these meetings, which were called by 
the director of the Agricultural Extension Service of Clemson 
College and the South Carolina division of the American Cotton 
Association, delegates were named to represent respective sections 
of the State at the semiannual meeting of the South Carolina divi- 
sion of the American Cotton Association at Columbia, May 3, 1921. 
The association agreement and marketing contract were indorsed 
at the Columbia meeting. An organization committee of 21, the 
members of which had been named at the regional meetings, directed 
the membership campaign. The campaign began on July 19 in 
Marion and Spartanburg Counties, under the leadership of the 
agricultural extension service and the State division of the American 
Cotton Association. It continued until May 1, 1922, at which 
time 9,981 growers had-signed contracts representing 415,871 bales, 
or more than the established minimum of 400,000 bales on the basis 
of 1920 production, 
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