A 1936 Farm Credit Administration circular tracing the history of cooperative cotton marketing in the United States from the 1870s to the mid-1930s. It covers the Grange, the Farmers Alliance, early price-control and holding associations, the Farmers Union warehouse program, the Scott Cotton Growers Association, the American Cotton Association, the large state and regional cooperatives of the 1920s, and national sales organizations. It also treats cooperative cotton-gin associations and cottonseed-oil mills, and ends with a bibliography. It includes photographs, an engraving, and a table of associations.