Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-08-14
RATION.

lIIhis Is the Great oblel1iot the.
Day For the Farmer. I|#5
Il eonne Instances svvtsrs Cos opsration III
iiohly Profitabl Il statistics 81 Great
CO. operative Entsrprisss 7That Az
vorthy Careful Psrusa 0ood 9usi-
IL ness lana ssmsrt tho Secret.
n these days of much talked of pre-
| posed coop rative Il enterprises II 8
we'll to consid der some Of the enter
\ prises that are already proving their
right to existence. There are many
l of them. Wv few only will BE consid Ter
ed here. The figures given for these
various enterprises are the latest OBJ
taina BILE and deal mostly with trans
actions for 1912. 81
The Farmers Co-operat tive society Of
\ Rockwell, la, IS In the twenty fifth
year of Its existence. or It 1t is said
that success has charact erized Its OPP
EZRA tons from the beginning. This so.
lciety blazed the way for the farmers
LOT Iowa toward, the goal Of freedom
Ito handle their grain and other prod
/ uce, to buy their achinery and other
PARTICLES as they chose and where and
4 lot whom. regardless Of the wealth
4 which has been combined against
them Note some OF their larger trans
actions last year. Sales Oats, 1884,.
$40 bushels: corn. 142, 200 bushels.
bran and middlings. 333, 600 pounds:
i oilmeal. 81 800 pound j; barbed wire and
nails, Sc, $40 pounds: twine. 81 900
pounds: timothy seed. Is 900 pounds:
I salt, 2644 900 pounds a our, 1911 sacks:
coal. 1875 tons: lumber. $50. 800 feet:
Ishingles. 975 900; clothing in amount.
\ $2S,686. or 4 total business in sales Of
all goods and articles OF $6O5,152.44
D And this total amount of business was
i done at an expense 81 only SIS, O58 for
4 the year. The total net assets Jan. /.
4 1919, were $27. OF the society q
7 local paper says, NJ. It IS doing finely
il I'LL - w dsFSOOuS NlueHu5 aeVeEy
II year TOT It's stock holders.
Coming back east to New Jersey, we
ilfnd the Monmouth J.) County
4 Farmers Exc ange. organized FIVE
years ago with a paid up capital OF
sE$7 900. Its capital stock today amounts
4 70 81 OOO,s upon ss which q 5 per cent
d1y1d was declared n ats the end Of
~. s
4 the the ear. va pltaI ana surplus now
4 aam no IA TO 34.26 Potatoes are
sIthe princ1 crop ma He'd by the ex--g
eha nge and last yearsit was short but
lnere
worth $y4l ,765 at that "a l9ll y
amounted 70 ms the I'VE nv
years the exchange has done e total
business Of by here are e l2 ~
members OF the exchange They arr; are
salts he'd With results IN burlington
county, is located the Burling-
ton County Farmers 11 Exc ! change or.
/ ganized three years ago. Il hich i sold 'lt
during the season i Of 1912 over !. 900 t
cars OF potat toes and other produce to
the amount o Of 1000 and bought sup
plies to the amount of $lOOosOO ss
On Long STAND is sloca ted 8 another
HI COO perat alive associat Is y
isHstthe Long Island s Potato Exc h'ange
which did business during the i've
nths from August to- Dec. s1.3 1 g ?:
Of 81 S64 on NV e hich5 It made a
gross profit Sc, S15. Sc or net earn sfll 4
ings OF more than So GOO over the cor
responding period of the previous
4 The cross am cunt Of pota sold was
81 S749 sra 20 -. II 5smlsc IS,
{, Ian s5 s the total
indicated { PIP sst9.1 ' the
Y sl ort period OF We month sakln [