DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE


 Cooperative Flashes

 The Cooperative Division of the Farm Credit Adminis-
tration maintains a research and educational service for
cooperatives Recently that service has been greatly in-
creased.
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 Thousands of groups of farm women over the country
are cooperating to find a short cut between producer and
consumer. For the miscellaneous items, "curb" markets
often represent a profitable outlet and the cooperation in
this respect of the farmer's wife has helped to make possible
the additional satisfaction of the family's needs by direct
interchange of cash and commodities.

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 Courses in cooperative agriculture are being taught i
practically all State agricultural colleges in the Country.
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 More farmers sell dairy products cooperatively than any
other agricultural commodity.
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 About one farmer m every three m the Umted States
sells a part or all of his products through agricultural as-
sociations.
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 Sales value of cooperatively marketed farm products is
roughly equal to one-fifth of the total cash farm income
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 Auctioning poultry and eggs cooperatively has made
rapid growth in the last ten years and has become one of