Excerpt from The Efficiency of Cooperative Livestock Shipping Associations in West Virginia Of cooperative shipping associations in West Virginia; to ex amine their efficiency as livestock marketing agencies; and to locate factors Of inefficiency, the elimination of which would make such associations more effective agencies for marketing livestock, not alone in West Virginia, but also in states where similar condi tions are found. Studies of cooperative livestock shipping associations have been made by experiment station workers in several states, chiefly where livestock is concentrated in large numbers. Many important princi ples have been established, some Of which need modification for proper application under the conditions peculiar to West Virginia, a livestock deficit area. The conditions under which livestock is produced and marketed in West Virginia are quite similar to those found in a larger area Of the Appalachian region. One outstanding difference between livestock production in this area and production in states where the most comprehensive studies of cooperative ship ping associations have been made is that while livestock production is among the chief agricultural enterprises Of West Virginia, the number produced per farm is comparatively small. It seemed worth while, therefore, to study the accomplishments of cooperative live stock shipping associations in an area where the number Of animals per farm is small, where the volume Of business for an association is necessarily limited, and where the marketing is highly seasonal. 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.