FARMERS 7 COOPERATIVE BUSINESS ORGANIZATION'S 3 
to 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 
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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 farmed 
business organizations were mostly local enterprises with occasional 
