72 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 It is heartening to consider the size of the business
transacted by farmers' associations in the United States.
A report issued by the Bureau of Agricultural Economic
at Washington, D. C, give us the following very interest-
ing figures relative to the 11,400 cooperative associations
listed in the nation:


Gram Associations
 Dairy Associations .. -
Live Stock Associations
Fruit and Vegetable Associations
Cotton Associations.
Poultry and Egg Associations
Nut Associations -.
Tobacco Associations .......
Wool Associations
Miscellaneous ..

Grand Total Business for Year 1927


... $ 680,000,000
 620,000,000
 320,000,000
 300,000,000
 97,000,000
 40,000,000
 14,600.000
 22,000,000
 7,000,000
 200,000,000

 _$2,200.600,000


 This huge total of business indicates the tremendous
strides the American farmer has made toward the proper
management of his own business affairs. Here in Florida
we are just beginning. Our citrus, poultry, dairy, truck
and general farming groups are in need of sound organiza-
tion, intelligently directed. The efforts already made to-
ward this end would seem to lend a hopeful outlook to the
future. Collective action, directed by intelligence and made
vital by loyalty, can, and we believe will take our producers
tar along the highway of progress.