LOCATION OF ALL COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS REPORTING TO THE OFFICE OF MARKETS AND RURAL ORGANIZATION. Bul. 547, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. CHART 1. NUMBER OF COOPERATIVE ORGANIZATIONS BY CLASS IN GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS. LEGEND FRUIT AND PRODUCE COTTON. STORES. TOBACCO. LIVESTOCK. MISCELLANEOUS NUMBER OF ORGANIZATIONS BY CLASS IN FIFTEEN LEADING COOPERATIVE STATES. Bul. 547, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. CHART 3. TABLE I.-Total number of farmers' organizations reporting for each class of business, by States-Continued. Table II shows the type of organization, the annual volume of business, and membership for the organizations reporting on these points, arranged according to classes for each State, with a similar arrangement for all classes for the entire United States. (See also Charts 4 and 8.) So far as possible, the type of organization has been indicated. Those that conduct their business as an ordinary stock company have been placed in one class and those that operate on a more truly cooperative basis have been placed in the other class. This does not mean that all the associations in the last-named class are organizations without capital stock; on the contrary, a large number of them have capital stock because this is the common form of organization among farmers' companies. An association can be truly cooperative even though it is formed on the stock-company plan. As has been stated, an effort was made to exclude all organizations owned and operated for the benefit of a few stockholders. Those with a large number of stockholders which appear to operate principally for the benefit of the patrons have been included, even though they are not strictly cooperative in nature. |