Excerpt from Integrated Petroleum Operations Through Farmer Cooperatives, 1950 and 1957 Many farmers formed cooperatives to provide themselves with high quality oil products at the lowest possible cost. These cooperatives represent a form of economic integration by farmers to procure needed production supplies. Over the years, petroleum coopera tives have found it advisable to follow industry trends and to vertically inte grate their operations further. Begin ning first with retailing, they moved on to wholesaling and then on to refining and producing crude oil. Their own transportation services accompanied each step. This was consistent with the integrated activities of farmers in earlier days when they produced their own feed for horse and mule power.(3) numbers and kinds of services or functions cooperatives performed in processing and distributing petroleum products; and (4) extent to which farmer cooperatives had integrated their petro leum operations. 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.