Community Civics and Rural Life by Arthur William Dunn
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map on page 36 shows the distribution of organizations among
farmers in the United States for cooperation in business enterprises of various kinds, though it shows only about half as many as actually exist. They include cooperative grain elevators and warehouses, creameries and cheese factories, cooperative stores, fruit and grain growers' associations, livestock associations, cotton and tobacco associations, and many others. Study the map on page 36 and indicate the region or regions where you think cooperative grain elevators and warehouses would be most numerous; livestock associations; dairies and creameries; fruit growers' associations; cotton growers' associations; tobacco growers' associations. Are there any organizations of farmers in your community similar to those in the list in the last paragraph above? Make a list of them. What are their purposes? What are their advantages? What obstacles have they encountered? Are all the farmers in the community members? If not, why? Describe their plans of organization--membership, officers, management, etc. (Discuss these questions at home and report results.) Is there any organization of businessmen, or of workmen, in your town or neighboring town? If so, ascertain what advantages it seeks. Show how an ordinary store, or a bank, or a grain elevator, is a means by which people cooperate. Are there any boys' or girls' clubs in your community? Show how |
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