Excerpt from Inventory Management by Selected Retail Farm Supply Co-Ops Area VFor this report, eight retail farm supply cooperatives in Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas provided information about their invan tory operations for 5 years 1952-53 through 1956-57.Supply volume of the cooperatives ranged from a low of to a high of for the 1956-57 fiscal year. Volume was below in six of the eight associations. Average volume increased about 28 percent over the 5-year period.Almost 80 percent of total volume came from feed, seed, and fertilizer items. Fertilizer represented more than a third of total volume, feed about 25 percent, and seed 13 percent, with a variety of other commodities making up the balance of commodities handled.Volume of individual commodities fluctuated considerably in individual associations. While fertilizer represented more than 50 percent of total volume in three associations, it represented less than 20 percent of the total in another three. Feed in one association accounted for 57 percent of its total volume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.