Excerpt from Selecting and Electing Directors of Farmers' Cooperatives Directors are nominated from the floor at election meetings by the larger number of associations of both the small and large scale groups. Nominating committees were used by 18 percent of the small scale and 22 percent of the large scale associations. Member associations and district meetings were the points at which 34 percent of the directors of large scale cooperatives were nominated. About 10 percent of the small scale associations nominated directors selected at members' caucuses. About 18 percent of the large scale cooperatives used this method. The use of nomination petitions was limited to 4 percent of the small scale associations and percent of the large scale. Less than 2 percent of both small and large scale associations used mail ballots. 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.