Book excerpt: Excerpt from Statistics of Farmer Cooperatives, 1959-1960 Total net volume, after eliminating duplication resulting from interassociation business, amounted to almost billion. This is an increase of percent over the net business of billion in 1957-58. The total number of memberships increased by in 1958-59 and amounted to This increase in memberships was relatively small, but it was significant primarily because it checked the downward trend in memberships shown in the two preceding surveys. These decreases reported in the 2 preceding years were attributed largely to the steadily declining number of farmers in the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.