FARMERS COOPERATIVE BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS 
13 
Average Number of Members for Associations Handling Tobacco, Cotton, and Pice for 1915 and 1924 
TOBACCO 
191 5 336 
1924 33.945 
COTTON 
1915 87 
1924 17. 657 
RICE 
1915 
1924 
-8 2 8 
THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS 
PER ASSOCIATION 
15 20 25 
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 OOILARS 
CALIFORNIA 253.9 
MISSOURI 
18 7.2 
MINNESOTA 
I2&2 
IOWA 
1288 
NEW YORK 
116.0 
ILLINOIS 
100.2 
NEBRASKA 
84.2 
WISCONSIN 
7 6.3 
KANSAS 
74.1 
OHIO 
68.7 
WASHINGTON 
6 7.6 
MICHIGAN 
55.7 
OKLAHOMA 
4a 
TEXAS 
47.2 
NORTH DAKOTA 
4 7.0 
SOUTH DAKOTA 
3 6.7 
INDIANA 
28.8 
PENNSYLVANIA 
24.8 
ARKANSAS 
13.3 
TENNESSEE 
9.3 
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 
