| Show Co Cooperatives p Do Large Business Seventy Associations Are Engaged in Marketing Poultry and Eggs Prepared by the United State Department Dopart- Dopart ment meat of Agriculture American operative co-operative associations engaged In marketing p poultry or eggs or both have a total membership exceeding exceeding ex ex- ex and do an annual business business busi busl ness estimated at more than thau Records of ot more than 70 such associations are flied Hied led In the United States Department of Agriculture ure The Tue first association of ot which records records rec rec- are available was organized In 1913 1013 five Fifty-five of ot the associations have been organized since 1920 1020 Al Al- vu associations are scattered scattered scat sent over 21 states the majority are located In Minnesota Missouri California Call Cali fornia Cornia and Washington I The associations on the Pacific coast serve members who make a business of ot op operating large poultry ranches and to a considerable extent this Is true of ot organizations In the eastern states while the associations in n the Middle West Vest serve members with small farm tarm flocks Operate on City Ity Markets Two associations In New York city oDe one In Detroit and one In In St St. Paul are sales agencies operating on city markets These agencies represent associations with headquarters In the larger producing areas One of ot the New York associations represents several several sev sev- eral of the large California organ organ- A duck growers' growers association Is located located lo lo- on Long Island with a sales agency In New York city This asso asso- clatIon handles a large volume of ot business bustness bust busi ness for 80 to members Duck farming on oa Long Island is on a commercial commercial com corn mercial scale and ranches produce an anywhere from a few thousand to toas toas toas as many as ducks annually About three-fourth three of the duck raisers are members of ot the association Members In Associations The smallest association reporting has 12 members and the largest has about the average per association association I tion being 1018 Three of ot the states California Missouri and Washington Washing Washing- ton ton handle handle 82 per cent of ot the total business accredited to associations of ot this kind Fifty per cent of all the eggs marketed by operative co-operative associations associations asso asso- In 1 1925 1025 25 were handled by two of ot the associations While the bulk bulkot of ot the business was handled by associations associations asso asso- organized primarily for the purpose of handling poultry products two associations namely Land o 0 Lakes Creameries and the Challenge Creamery and Butter association each handled a large volume of eggs as a aside aside aside side line for the associations for which they are furnishing sales service Thirty-five Thirty of the associations handie handle handle han han- dle die live poultry and 16 10 dressed poul poul- try A total of pounds of ot live poultry was marketed In 1925 by 31 of the associations The Tue cooperative cooperative co op marketing of ot poultry Is con confined confined confined fined very lar largely ely to the middle western west vest em ern rn states where th the small farm flock predominates |
