Milford chronicle., 1926-02-26
GRAPE GROWERS GET
MARKETING STATISTICS
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special interest to the Delaware
grape growers in that the crop last
year from the older vineyards was
reduced almost twenty-five per cent
because of adverse weather condi-
tions last spring.
Owing to the fact that the yield
OF grapes in Michigan in 1925 was
only about one-tenth of a normal
crop, the Southern Michigan Fruit
Association, Lawton, Michigan, ship
ped but 123 cars, compared with 911
for the 1924 season. The average
price per car, however, was S1084
against $675 in 1924. Expenses for
the 1925 shipments were S6348, and
for the 1924 shipments $S511. Total
sales for the past season were $780,
316, of " Which amount ten per cent
was deducted for expenses. One
half of this deduction is now being
paid to growers as a patronage re-
fund.
Shipments by the association since
1922 have been as follows: 1922,
1894 cars; 1928, 632 cars; 1924, oil
cars; 1925, 123 cars. The association
was organized in 1899 and during its
earlier years shipped many cars, the
largest number in a single season
being 1900 cars in 1910.
The supply department Of the as
sociation reported net sales of $751;
4SS for 1925, compared with $112,982
for the preceding season. Expenses
of operating the supply department
were S4565, which was a decrease of
nearly $4,000 from the year before.
Membership during 1925 increased
from AL to 497. Of this latter num-
ber. 4S3 have signed contracts
whereby they agree to deliver their
crops of table grapes to the associa-
ton for a period of three years. Ow-
ing to the short crop of 1925 but 2S9
members delivered grapes to the as
sOCiatiOn.
SHIPMENTS are made from six
railway stations. The cost of load
ing varied in 1925 from $1.79 car
at the home station, where AZ cars
were loaded, to $500 car at the
home station from which smaller
number of cars were shipped.
According to a recent compilation
of statistics secured by the United
States Department of Agriculture
approximately eleven thousand CO.
operative associations of various
kinds were listed at the close of the
year 1925.
The exact number of these or
carnations on record in the Wash
ington office for the past year is TO-
8O3, which lacks but As of being
double the number listed with the
government in 1915 when the first
nationwide survey of cooperative
associations was attempted in this
country.
The total number of active associ-
ations, including those which have
reported to the Department of Agri-
culture, and those which have not,
is estimated at twelve thousand.
These figures are for business assO-
Citations, those selling farm pro-
ducts, buying farm supplies, oper-
ating creameries, cheese factories,
canning plants, grain elevators,
stockyards, warehouses, or render
ing some one or more of the essen
tial services connected with the con-
duct of the farmers enterprises. The
figures do not include farmers CO.
operative banks, credit associations,
nor insurance companies.
Fifty-four of the associations list
ed are federations with local units,
40 are sales agencies operating in
central markets, 95 are bargaining
associations, and SO are large-scale
organizations of the centralized
type.
OF the total number of associa-
tions listed, 1925 are primarily en-
gagged in the marketing of grain,
2197 in handling dairy products,
ITO in shipping livestock, 1850 in
marketing fruits and vegetables, 121
are performing various functions in
the marketing OF cotton, 81 in mar
keting wool, II in marketing poultry
or poultry products, and "a in mar
keting tobacco.
over seventy per cent of all the
associations are in the twelve North
Central States. Approximately six
per cent of the total number are in
the three Pacific Coast States, and
less than three per cent are in the
five New England States.
The largest number of assoc1a-
tions reported from any one state
is 1883 from Minnesota. Iowa is
credited with 1894 associations, Wis
consin with 1892, and Illinois with
822. The numbers reporting from
some of the other states are: Miss
ouri, 537; Nebraska, 4SS; Kansas,
466; California, $50; New York, 2S6.
The grain marketing associations
are largely in the twelve North Cen
trail States, as are also the greater
number of the livestock shipping
associations. The organizations en-
gagged in the marketing of dairy pro-
ducts are scattered through the for
ty-eight states with a fair percen-
tage of the total number in Mime
sofa and Wisconsin.