Excerpts from the report: Part I of this Handbook gives information on each of 21 major regional cooperatives handling farm supplies in the United States for their fiscal years ending in 1957 and 1958. The information presented in this Handbook on individual cooperatives was provided and authorized for publication by each organization. With one exception, each association handled more than $10 million of farm supplies annually. The associations are presented in the order of their total wholesale and retail supply business for 1958. Part II consolidates information on the group for 1957 and 1958. Principal items considered for each of the 21 associations include: age of the associations, area of service, type and number of retail outlets, number of patrons served, membership requirements, voting provisions, number and terms of directors, number of employees, fiscal year endings, dollar volume of business, types of supplies handled, distribution of net margins, revolving capital, total cash distributions to patrons, and financial conditions of the associations for 1957 and 1958.
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Includes Association reports for 21 major regional cooperatives: Cooperative Grange League Federation Exchange, Inc., Ithaca, N. Y.; Southern States Cooperative, Inc., Richmond, Va.; Consumers Cooperative Association, Kansas City, Mo.; Eastern States Farmers' Exchange, Inc., W. Springfield, Mass.; Farmers Union Central Exchange, Inc., St. Paul, Minn.; Illinois Farm Supply Company, Chicago; Indiana Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Inc., Indianapolis; The Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Inc., Columbus, Ohio; Midland Cooperatives, Inc., Minneapolis, Minn.; Washington Co-operative Farmers Association, Seattle; Farmers Cooperative Exchange, Inc., Raleigh, N.C.; M.F.A. Milling Company, Springfield, Mo.; Poultry Producers of Central California, San Leandro, Calif.; Pennsylvania Farm Bureau Cooperative Association, Harrisburg; Pacific Supply Cooperative, Walla Walla, Wash.; Farm Bureau Services, Inc., Lansing, Mich.; Tennessee Farmers Cooperative, La Vergne; Central Cooperatives, Inc., Superior, Wis.; Poultrymens Cooperative Association of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.; Arkansas Farmers Association, North Little Rock; Farmers Union State Exchange, Omaha, Nebr.
