2 BULJLETIN 1302, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
names and addresses of associations of farmers engaged in selling or 
buying or both. Approximately 40,000 names were reported. After 
the elimination of duplicates there remained between 25,000 and 
30,000 names of associations. 
FARMS REPORTING COOPERATIVE SALES OR PURCHASES 
Fig. 1. — About a fourth of the farms in California, North Dakota, Kansas, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Michigan 
reported purchases or sales through cooperative associations in 1919, and considerably more than a fourth 
of the farms in Minnesota, South Dakota, and Nebraksa made similar reports. (See Table 5.) 
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Fig. 2.— Cooperators were numerous in parts of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Min- 
nesota, Nebraska, and California in 1919; and cooperators were few in number in New England, the 
Southern States, and the Mountain States. (See Table 5.) 
Subsequent follow-up work revealed that many organizations had 
been reported under two and three different names and some under 
four. Some of the associations reported were merely proposed 
organizations which had never been formed, and others had ceased 
