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Excerpt from the report: This report gives national and State figures on farmer cooperatives in the United States in 1952-53. These 10,114 marketing, farm supply, and related service cooperatives handled a gross dollar volume of business of $12.3 billion, almost 1.4 percent more than in 1951-52. Memberships increased to 7.5 million, about 1.4 percent more than the previous year. Number of associations dropped from 10,166, a decrease of 52.