COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURE


 What Other States Are Doing

 During the 1937 season, Virginia Dark Fired Tobacco
Growers Marketing Association, Farmville, Va., sold 7,067,-
000 pounds of tobacco. Of this amount, 601,000 pounds were
marketed through the "nicotine program." Additional
warehouse space has been provided; 7,500 square feet at
Blackstone, 20,000 at Farmville, and 15,000 at Lynchburg,
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 Material expansion in operations by the Rio Grande
Valley Citrus Exchange, will enable the association to
handle three or four times more fruit. This will be brought
about by an increase in the membership and by bringing
into the Exchange several additional local cooperative as-
sociations. With the enlargement of the juice plant the
Exchange will have a potential volume of 1,000,000 cases
of juice annually. A dehydrating plant is being completed
for the purpose of drying the hulls and pulp, a by-product
from the juice plant, to be made into grapefruit pulp meal
for poultry and dairy feed.
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 In 1937 the Central Cooperative Association with head-
 quarters in South St. Paul, Minn., paid its members patron-
 age refunds and dividends amount to 25; of commissions
 collected in 1936. Payments of $107,859. brought the total
 payments since the cooperative was formed in 1921 to $1,-
 606,803. In 1936 Central handled 18,810 carloads of stock,
 an increase of 464,. over 1935, or approximately 25% of all
 livestock marketed in South St. Paul. Business handled by
 Central at West Fargo brought the total to 20,139 carloads.

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 Ray-Carroll County Grain Growers, Wakenda, Mo., did
 a total business of over S900,000 in 1936. About two-thirds