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on commission, and also sold for the elevator department 4,246,649 bush- 

 els of the company's purchased grain. The profits for the year amounted 

 to $ 167,926.86. 



The authorized share capital was $ '^.,000,000 of which S 1,514,350 

 were subscribed and $227,152.50 paid up. 



A successful future seems to be assured for the company. In No- 

 vember, 1913, the number of local elevators had increased to 192, com- 

 prising 13,156 shareholders holding a total of 36,362 shares. Sixt3^-three 

 persons are employed at the head ofiice, 22 at Winnipeg office and 310 

 men in the operating department. In addition 145 men were employed 

 in the construction department. 



Looking forward to the future development of the company as a 

 factor in the grain marketing situation, the necessity of some action by 

 the company in regard to the carrying of the grain of its patrons further 

 than to the head of the Great Lakes, is being considered by the direc- 

 tors. A close study of the financial and other problems connected 

 with carr5dng the grain grown by Saskatchewan farmers right through to 

 the consumer is now being conducted, and there is every reason to be- 

 lieve, provided financial arrangements can be made, that the company 

 may be able to effect an improvement in the prices realized by the 

 producer by extending the area of its operations right through to Europe. 



2. COUNTRY SCHOOL CLUBS. 



OFFICIAI, SOURCES : 



School fairs in Canada. Information supplied by the several Provincial Departments of 

 Agriculture to the "Agricultural Gazette of Canada", published by the Department of 

 Agriculture, Ottawa, 1914. 



OTHER SOURCES : 

 ARTICLES, NOTES ctc, in the Canadian Agricultural Press. 



The Canadian Country School Boys' and Girls' Clubs, have only 

 been founded within the last few years and in their general principles 

 they resemble those of the United States (i). 



Their objects are as follows : (i) to make farmers' children 

 acquainted with the most improved systems of agriculture, livestock 



(i) See Bulletin of Economic and Social IntelHi^ence. 2nd. J'ear, No. i. 



