COOPERATIVE AGRICULTURE


 For 50 years ranch operators in the Southwest have
been moving cattle to the Flint Hills area during the sum-
mer and fall for fattening on grass under contract Co-
operatives now provide supervision of grazing under pasture
contracts.
 In the 1935-36 season, fruit and vegetable farmers of
Utah marketed 118 more of their crops through coopera-
tive associations than during the 1934-35 period.
 California citrus growers control one of the largest
timber holdings in the United States. Their cooperative
purchasing organization, the Fruit Growers Supply Co.,
could produce in the farmers' own lumber mills and box
factories enough shipping crates to move the entire Cali-
fornia citrus crop to market annually.

 In 1912, membership of the California Walnut Growers
Association totaled 1,164 with a production of 5,683 tons
of merchantable walnuts or 52%/of the State crop. In 1937
there were 7,988 members who produced 35,873 tons of mar-
ketable walnuts during the record 1935 season or 85%C of
the State total
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 List of Farm Credit Administration publications, in-
cluding bulletins of interest to cooperatives, furnished by
FCA, 1300 E. Street, N. W.. Washington, D. C.