. Business analysis of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association. Tobacco Economic aspects; Cooperative marketing of farm produce. CIRCULAR No. 100 OCTOBER, 1929 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WASHINGTON, D. BUSINESS ANALYSIS OF THE TOBACCO GROWERS' COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION By John J. Scanlan,1 Agricultural Economist, Division of Cooperative Marketing, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and J. M. Tinley, Collaborator CONTENTS Page 1 Purpose of this study 2 Procedure of the study 2 The tobacco of the tri-State area 3 Production by quantity and , 3 Manufacture
. Business analysis of the Tobacco Growers' Cooperative Association. Tobacco Economic aspects; Cooperative marketing of farm produce. CIRCULAR No. 100 OCTOBER, 1929 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE WASHINGTON, D. BUSINESS ANALYSIS OF THE TOBACCO GROWERS' COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION By John J. Scanlan,1 Agricultural Economist, Division of Cooperative Marketing, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, and J. M. Tinley, Collaborator CONTENTS Page 1 Purpose of this study 2 Procedure of the study 2 The tobacco of the tri-State area 3 Production by quantity and , 3 Manufactured products 6 Foreign trade 7 Formation of the Tobacco Growers' Coopera- tive Association 9 Factors leading to organization 9 Developments during organization period and membership campaign 12 Formation of organization committee 12 Membership campaign 13 The internal organization 19 Directors 19 Departments 20 Subsidiary warehousing corporations 21 Type of organization 22 Members' responsibility for failure of the 23 Conditions of farm population in the tri-State area 24 The association's receipts of tobacco 36 Management policies and their relation to failure of association 42 Experience and attitude of directors 43 Membership policies—- 44 Legal status of the association 45 Advances and payments to members 51 Operating policies and practices 55 Costs of operation 81 Page Management policies and their relation to failure of association—Continued. Price and sales policy 88 Member and nonmember prices 102 Opposition to the association 112 Progress during operation of the 114 Changes in policies 114 Attempts at reorganization 116 Receivership granted 115 Causes contributing to 117 Results of the association 119 Benefits derived from operation of the association 119 Harmful effects of the association 120 Future organization 120 Growers' interest in cooperative market- ing 121 Manufacturers' interest in cooperative marketing 122 A suggested
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