Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1919-04-18
10000

OInoel5ulp OF farmers
associations -. -. $4,000
Farmers own or oper-
ate 6O6 grain elevat-
ors in three provinces
and four big termin-
al elevators at Port
Arthur and Fort
William.
Farmers companies
market about one
third total grain crop,
which in this season
of low yield amounts
to something like
(bushels) -. ..... $4,000, 600
Value of grain farmers
market .... ...$177.OO0,000
Farmers companies
employ (persons) 1900
Authorized capital IS 10000
Paid-up capital ..... 100000
Reserve funds ..... 100000
Assets of companies ex-
coed 49,. ...... 100000
Paid war taxes past two
years .. 49,. 100000
Handling grain is the chief but not
the only enterprise undertaken by
the companies and their total annual
turnover amounts to something like
O0,0O0,OO0.
For Farmers Only
The skeptic may yet inquire how
these farmers happened to arrive in
this bioated condition of high fin
ance. Wasn't there a rich uncle or
some philanthropist to give them a
start? No, the records show that
they started small, upon their own
resources, and grew like any business
enterprise that fills a public need.
Some may allege that a fairy god
mother, otherwise the Province OF
Saskatchewan, has given the farmers
a powerful boost by lending them
public funds. But there are plenty
of private businesses, from railroads
to ships and munition works, which
have been aided by governments. The
farmers of Manitoba and Alberta
asked no aid.
All this movement In western Can
ada looks at first sight to be AZ COM
plicated as the proverbial Chinese
puzzle. There are wheels within
wheels of associations and OF com
mercial organizations that seem to
overlap and intermingle. There are
interlocking directorates. There are
little cogs that turn big wheels. There
are levers of independent power that
in ordinary business would have no
power at all-like the official organ
of the movement, which Is The Grain
Growers Guide. There are ALTER
alive names which have the madden
ing or soothing effect of nursery
rhymes 8.
For heavens sake" said Wnni-
peg man, don't get the Grain Grow
ers' Grain company-that was
mixed up with the United Grain
Growers, Limited--that is; and re-
member that the Manitoba Grain
Growers association is a noncom-
mercial body, while the Saskatche-
wan outfit"
In general, each of the three prov
inces has its noncommercial organi-
cations, which are known as gram
growers associations in Manitoba
and Saskatchewan and as the United
Farmers of Alberta in the thlrd
province. Tie commercial organlza-
lions are the United Grain Growers
Limited, comprising the farmers
business in Manitoba and Alberta es-
necially. and the Saskatchewan Co
operative Elevator company together
with a host of cooperative trading
societies that do business within the
province of Saskatchewan. All the
organizations In the three provinces
commercial and otherwise nave
common organ in the Grain crow
ers Guide. Finally. every outlit III
the three provinces is represented III
q national organization called the
Canadian Council OF Agriculture
with headquarters at Winnipeg.
Winnipeg is the worlds greatest
primary market for wheat. 1t IS SO
because all the vast grain crop OF the
Canadian prairies must pass through
this geographical "bottle neck On