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153 STATISTICS OF LABOR AKD INDUSTRIES.NUMBER OF ASSOCIATIONS* HAVINGBUNNINGCOUNTIES.mIsCDCQObt)AtlanticBergenBurlington...OdmdenCape MayCumberlandEssexGloucester....HudsonHunterdon..MercerMiddlesex....Monmouth...MorrieOceanPaesaicSaletnSomerset.....SussexUnioDWarrenTotal.812ni363111411168447145239323120* Incluaiye^of terminating and exclusive of perpetual.1151034532142 158201731876574927189311834117229723 16These classifications, as well as the averages, go to show thatthe size of our associations is increasing, but, notwithstandingthe rise of the national and State movement, only gradually.The local New Jersey enterprises are still, for the most part, comparativelysmall. This is not to be deplored. On the contrary,as the Bureau often has pointed out, with an extension of field,both as regards membership and territory, the cooperative characterof an association is sacrificed. An increase in membershipis to some degree unavoidable, perhaps advisable, in a permanentassociation as it increases in age.As will be seen from the following classified table, threequartersof our associations are not over 10 years old. Theylargely have come into existence during the paBt decade, the beginningof which marks the revival of interest in this cooperativemovement. It lias been of continuous growth since then, not