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Japanese settlers made an effort to fit in with the existing community by confining their economic activities to farming and patronizing European-American merchants. The new community had to overcome wind and water supply problems. The bank Abiko had recruited to finance the settlers failed, creating financial problems for the colony. A food buying cooperative was founded in 1910. The colony began to prosper with the formation of the Livingston Cooperative Society, a marketing cooperative, in 1914. A packing shed and a Methodist church were built in 1917. In 1927, the marketing cooperative split into the Livingston Fruit Growers Association and the Livingston Fruit Exchange. There were a reported 69 Japanese families in the Yamato Colony in 1940, farming more than 3,700 acres (1,500 ha).
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