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Date: August 22, 2013 12:59PM
The small Mormon community I grew up in practiced the United Order up until about 1887. (They also practiced polygamy, well after the Declaration).
The United Order was supposed to be "pure communism". In other words all farmers, ranchers, chicken keepers, garden growers were to turn in their produce, stock and fields to the Bishops Storehouse; the goods were then divided out to the families by their needs. Without going into all my small town history,
http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/josephcity.html.
Here's John Bushman's
http://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/c?SEARCH=HX656.U54+A3xhttp://catalog.lib.asu.edu/search/c?SEARCH=HX656.U54+A2x